impartiality

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
impartiality
    n 1: an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally
         [syn: {impartiality}, {nonpartisanship}] [ant:
         {partiality}, {partisanship}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Impartiality \Im*par`ti*al"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. impartialit['e].]
   The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or
   favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as,
   impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc.
   [1913 Webster]

         Impartiality strips the mind of prejudice and passion.
                                                  --South.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "impartiality":
      Olympian detachment, abnegation, abstention, abstinence,
      anythingarianism, calm, calmness, conservatism, constraint,
      continence, control, cool, cop-out, detachment, disinterest,
      disinterestedness, dispassion, dispassionateness, equitability,
      evasion, evenhandedness, evenness, fairness, fence-sitting,
      gentleness, golden mean, happy medium, independence, indifference,
      judiciousness, juste-milieu, justness, lenity, loftiness,
      meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation,
      moderationism, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, neutralism, neutrality,
      nonalignment, noncommitment, noninvolvement, nonpartisanism,
      nonviolence, nothing in excess, nothingarianism, objectivity,
      pacifism, prudence, repose, restraint, self-abnegation,
      self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, selflessness, serenity,
      sobriety, stability, steadiness, strict neutrality, temperance,
      temperateness, tranquillity, unbias, unbiasedness, unexcessiveness,
      unextravagance, unextremeness, unopinionatedness, unprejudicedness,
      unselfishness, via media

    

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