neutrality

noun

1 the tradition of civil service neutrality:

impartiality, lack of bias, lack of prejudice, objectivity, open-mindedness, disinterestedness, even-handedness, fairness, fair-mindedness, detachment.

▷antonyms partiality, bias.

2 our long-term interests will be served best by maintaining our neutrality in the war:

nonalignment, nonparticipation, noninvolvement, nonintervention, noninterventionism, noncombativeness.

▷antonyms participation, taking sides.