Neutrality

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Absence of Choice	Neutrality, indifference; indecision; (irresolution); arbitrariness.
Avoidance	Noun: abstention, abstinence; for bearance; refraining; Verb: inaction; neutrality.
Indifference	Noun: indifference, neutrality; coldness; Adjective: anaphrodisia; unconcern, insouciance, nonchalance; want of interest, want of earnestness; anorexy, anorexia, inappetency; apathy; (insensibility); supineness; (inactivity); disdain; recklessness; inattention.
Insensibility	Neutrality; quietism, vegetation.
Mean	Noun: mean, average; median, mode; balance, medium, mediocrity, generality; golden mean; (mid-course); middle; compromise; middle course, middle state; neutrality.
Mid-course	Neutrality; half measure, half and half measures; compromise.
Peace	Piping time of peace, quiet life; neutrality.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: Neutrality

Commercial Usage: Neutrality

Photo Album: Neutrality

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Undergoing conversion to a Navy transport, at the Atlantic Basin Iron Works, Brooklyn, New York, on 28 August 1941. She appears to be undergoing repainting from her white U.S. Army Transport color scheme to dark grey Navy camouflage paint. Note the weathered neutrality flag painted on her hull side amidships. The tanker Royal Arrow is visible in the right background.Credit: NAVY.		Underway during a Neutrality Patrol, 29 June 1941. Photographed from USS Wasp (CV-7). Note her unusual paint scheme: overall No. 5 Navy Gray on vertical surfaces, with all identifying markings painted out. This was done as a security measure prior to her transiting the Panama Canal earlier in the Spring.Credit: NAVY.
	Photographed circa 1940, at about the time she was acquired by the U.S. Navy. Note U.S. flag painted on the side of her pilothouse as a wartime neutrality marking. Built in 1928, Georgetown was acquired by the Navy on 4 September 1940 and commissioned on 3 March 1941 as USS Linnet (AM-76).Credit: NAVY.		Photographed circa 3 February 1941, while taking part in fleet landing exercises in the Caribbean. Note Higgens-type landing craft on her deck, just aft of the midships superstructure, and U.S. flag painted on her hull side as a neutrality marking. This ship was taken over by the U.S. Navy about four months later and became USS Hunter Liggett (AP-27).Credit: NAVY.
	Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1862, page 96, depicting CSS Nashville (1861-1862) in dock at Southampton, England, circa January 1862, with USS Tuscarora (1861-1883) keeping watch in the right distance. Other identified ships in the distance are Dauntless and Moulton, which may be British warships present to protect English neutrality.Credit: NAVY.		Let's quit U.S./Japan military alliances and keep the peace and neutrality of Japan] [Japan Communist Party : protecting the peace for fifty years].Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Familiar Quotations: Neutrality

Historic Usage: Neutrality

Use in Literature: Neutrality

Non-Fiction Usage: Neutrality

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Luxembourg	In 1867, Luxembourg was recognized as independent and guaranteed perpetual neutrality. (references)
	Hungary	He appealed to the United Nations and the Western powers for protection of its neutrality. (references)
	Afghanistan	The Afghan king's policy of neutrality was not universally popular within the country, however. (references)
Human Rights	Afghanistan	During the attack on Yakawlang, eyewitnesses reported that both sides violated the neutrality of medical facilities and failed to treat civilians as noncombatants. (references)
Political Economy	Austria	Austria has shaped its foreign policy on the basis of neutrality for over 40 years. (references)
	Ireland	Sinn Fein's program calls for an end to NATO, large increases in social spending, and a strict policy of military neutrality for Ireland. (references)
Political Rights	Peru	In November 2000, President Paniagua issued a directive to state institutions, government officials, and the armed forces telling them to help foster neutrality by refraining from political involvement. (references)
Trade	Switzerland	The reasons for the rejection were many and varied, but the opposition was successful in casting the vote as a proxy decision on future EU membership and instinctive fears of abandoning neutrality, ceding sovereignty to Brussels, and an unwanted influx of foreigners prevailed. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significance to the most solemn event in the history of Christianity, but really antedating it by thousands of years. By many it has been believed to be identical with the crux ansata of the ancient phallic worship, but it has been traced even beyond all that we know of that, to the rites of primitive peoples. We have to-day the White Cross as a symbol of chastity, and the Red Cross as a badge of benevolent neutrality in war. Having in mind the former, the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape smites the lyre to the effect following: "Be good, be good!" the sisterhood Cry out in holy chorus, And, to dissuade from sin, parade Their various charms before us. But why, O why, has ne'er an eye Seen her of winsome manner And youthful grace and pretty face Flaunting the White Cross banner? Now where's the need of speech and screed To better our behaving? A simpler plan for saving man (But, first, is he worth saving?) Is, dears, when he declines to flee From bad thoughts that beset him, Ignores the Law as 't were a straw, And wants to sin -- don't let him.
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Speeches: Neutrality

Usage Frequency: Neutrality

Expressions: Neutrality

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Neutrality

Modern Translations: Neutrality

Language		Translations for "neutrality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		neutralitet (neutralism), asnjanësi (neutralism). (various references)

Arabic		‏حيادية, ‏حياد. (various references)

Bulgarian		неутралност, неутралитет. (various references)

Chinese		中立地位. (various references)

Czech		nevyhranìnost, neutralita, bezpohlavnost. (various references)

Danish		neutralitet. (various references)

Dutch		neutraliteit. (various references)

Farsi		نادرگیری , بیطرفی (Impartiality). (various references)

Finnish		puolueettomuus (impartiality). (various references)

French		neutralité. (various references)

German		neutralität (non committal). (various references)

Greek		ουδετερότητα (adiaphoria, neutralism, non alignment). (various references)

Hebrew		חיו�", א�"ישות (apathy, impassivity, indifference, inertness, listlessness, phlegm, unconcern), � טרליות. (various references)

Hungarian		semlegesség, semleges kémhatás, pártatlanság (candor, candour, detachment, fairness, impartiality, justice, liberality), közömbösség (coolness, disinterest, impassivity, incuriosity, indifference, listlessness, negligence). (various references)

Indonesian		kenetralan. (various references)

Italian		neutralit� . (various references)

Japanese Kanji		局外中立 , 中立性 , 中立 , 不偏不党 (impartiality, independence), 不介入 (nonintervention, noninvolvement), 不偏 (fairness, impartiality). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょくがいちゅうりつ, ふかいにゅう (nonintervention, noninvolvement), ふへ�"ふとう (impartiality, independence), ふへ�" (constant, eternal, everlasting, fairness, immovable, immutable, impartiality, indestructible, omnipresence, permanent, ubiquity, unchangeable, universality), ちゅうりつせい, ちゅうりつ. (various references)

Korean		중립성. (various references)

Manx		neuchommeeaght (neutralism), neaghtyraght, naeeraght. (various references)

Pig Latin		eutralitynay

Portuguese		neutralidade (indifferent, neutralization). (various references)

Romanian		neutralitate. (various references)

Russian		нейтралитет (neutralism). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neutralnost (non committal), nemešanje (noninterference, non-interference). (various references)

Spanish		neutralidad. (various references)

Swedish		neutralitet (neutralism). (various references)

Turkish		yansızlık, tarafsızlık (candor, candour, detachment, equilibrium, equitableness, equity, evenness, fair play, fairness, impartiality, indifference, neutralism, non committal, objectiveness, objectivity, openness). (various references)

Turkmen		bitaraplyk. (various references)

Ukranian		неупередженість (candor, candour, open mindedness), нейтральність (indifference), нейтралітет (neutralism), безсторонність (candor, candour, detachment, equity, impartiality, impersonality). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính chất trung lập. (various references)

Welsh		amhleidiaeth (impartiality). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings: Neutrality

Rhyming with "Neutrality"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "neutrality" (pronounced nuwtra"lutē)
5	-a" l u t ē	abnormality, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, finality, formality, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, individuality, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, rationality, reality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality.
4	-l u t ē	ability, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, credulity, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, equality, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, fidelity, flammability, flexibility, fragility, frivolity, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, incredulity, indestructibility, inequality, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, polity, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, quality, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, seasonality, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability.
3	-u t ē	absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity.
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Anagrams: Neutrality

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-r-t-t-u-y"
	-1 letter: unreality.
	-2 letters: auntlier, interlay, retinula, rutilant, tenurial, titulary, tutelary.
	-3 letters: alunite, inertly, inlayer, intreat, irately, iterant, latrine, littery, nattier, nattily, neutral, nitrate, nuttier, nuttily, ratline, reality, reliant, retinal, riantly, ruinate, ruttily, taunter, taurine, tearily, tenuity, tertial, tertian, titular, trenail, tritely, tutelar, unitary, uralite, uranite, urinate, utterly.
	-4 letters: aerily, aliner, antler, artily, attire, attune, auntie, auntly, eluant, elytra, entail, entity, larine, latent, latten, latter, lattin, learnt, lenity, linear, linter, litany, litten, litter, lunate, lunier, lutein, lyrate, lyttae, nailer, natter, nature, nearly, neatly, nettly, neural, nitery, nutate, nutlet, nutria, nutter, ratine, ratite, ratlin, ratten, rattle, rattly, realty, renail, rental, retail, retain, retial, retina, retint, ritual, runlet, rutile, tailer, talent, tartly, tauten, tauter, tautly, tenail, tenuti, tetany, tetryl, tilter, tineal, tinter, treaty, trinal, triune, truant, turtle, tyrant, uniter, unreal, uranyl, urinal, yatter, yttria.
	-5 letters: alert, alien, aline, alter, anile, antre, ariel, artel, atilt, aunty, aurei, early, elain, elint, entia, entry, inert, inlay, inlet, inter, inure, irate, laity, laten, later, latte, layer, leant, learn, leary, liane, liner, liney, linty, liter, litre, lunar, lunet, lutea, lyart, lytta, natty, netty, niter, nitre, nitty, nutty, rainy, ratel, ratty, relay, relit, renal, retia, riant, riley, riyal, runty, rutin, rutty, taint, taler, tarty, tater, taunt, teary, telia, tenia, tenty, terai, tetra, tiler, tinea, titan, titer, title, titre, trail, train, trait, treat, trial, trine, trite, truly, tuner, tuyer, ulnae, ulnar, ultra, unary, unite, unity, unlay, unlet, unlit, untie, until, uraei, urate, ureal, urial, urine, uteri, utile, utter, yearn, yenta, yulan, yurta.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-r-t-t-u-y"
	+1 letter: anticruelty.
	+2 letters: interfaculty.
	+3 letters: importunately.
	+4 letters: antiregulatory, inarticulately, instrumentally, intersexuality, intertextually, rectangularity, transsexuality, unalterability, unattractively, unflatteringly.
	+5 letters: argumentatively, instrumentality, interculturally, intertextuality, mouthwateringly.
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Alternative Orthography: Neutrality

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 65 75 74 72 61 6C 69 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-. . ..- - .-. .- .-.. .. - -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100101 01110101 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#101 &#117 &#116 &#114 &#97 &#108 &#105 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0065 0075 0074 0072 0061 006C 0069 0074 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Domain	Definitions
Politics & International Affaires	State of a nation which voluntarily refuses to become involved in an international conflict. Source: European Union. (references)
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Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You make me think that fruit salad on your chest is for neutrality, evasiveness, and fence-straddling. (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II)
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Domain	Title
Books	Censorship in Ireland 1939-1945: Neutrality, Politics and Society (reference) Hitler's Secret Bankers: The Myth of Swiss Neutrality During the Holocaust (reference) Official Documents Bearing on the Armed Neutrality of 1780 and 1800 (Pamphlet Series of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, division Of International Law, No. 27.) (reference) Sign Language Interpreting: Deconstructing the Myth of Neutrality (reference) Strangers in a Strange Land: Escape to Neutrality (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Alexander Hamilton	Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Dante Alighieri	The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
President John F. Kennedy	Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	Germany recognises that the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg ceased to form part of the German Zollverein as from January 1, 1919, renounces all rights to the exploitation of the railways, adheres to the termination of the regime of neutrality of the Grand Duchy, and accepts in advance all international arrangements which may be concluded by the Allied and Associated Powers relating to the Grand Duchy. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	But besides this, it is in our own experience that the most sincere neutrality is not a sufficient guard against the depredations of nations at war.
James Monroe	1817-1825	Our attitude has therefore been that of neutrality between them, which has been maintained by the Government with the strictest impartiality.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	We retain the permanent right to defend the canal with our own military forces, if necessary, to guarantee its openness and its neutrality.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	518	11,731

Expression using "neutrality": armed neutrality. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "neutrality": non-neutrality, risk-neutrality.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
act neutrality	20
neutrality	18
neutrality proclamation	10
1935 act neutrality	4
swiss neutrality	4
neutrality switzerland	2
agreement neutrality	2
neutrality political	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"Neutrality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: neutrallity, neutrility. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Neutrality

Definitions: Neutrality

Neutrality

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Neutrality

Synonym: Neutrality

Synonyms within Context: Neutrality

Absence of Choice

Avoidance

Indifference

Insensibility

Mean

Mid-course

Peace

Crosswords: Neutrality

Modern Usage: Neutrality

Screenplays

Commercial Usage: Neutrality

Books

Photo Album: Neutrality

Familiar Quotations: Neutrality

Alexander Hamilton

Dante Alighieri

President John F. Kennedy

Historic Usage: Neutrality

Treaty of Versailles

Use in Literature: Neutrality

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Neutrality

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Neutrality

George Washington

James Monroe

Jimmy Carter

Usage Frequency: Neutrality

Expressions: Neutrality

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Neutrality

act neutrality

neutrality

neutrality proclamation

1935 act neutrality

swiss neutrality

neutrality switzerland

agreement neutrality

neutrality political

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