IMPARTIALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impartiality mean? 

• IMPARTIALITY (noun)
  The noun IMPARTIALITY has 1 sense:

1. an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally

  Familiarity information: IMPARTIALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPARTIALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

impartiality; nonpartisanship

Hypernyms ("impartiality" is a kind of...):

disposition; inclination; tendency (an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "impartiality"):

disinterestedness (freedom from bias or from selfish motives)

candor; candour; fair-mindedness; fairness (ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty)

Antonym:

partiality (an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives)

Derivation:

impartial (free from undue bias or preconceived opinions)

impartial (showing lack of favoritism)

 Context examples 

I was again astonished, for he addressed himself to the question with the impartiality of the completest sanity; he even took himself as an example when he mentioned certain things.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She had received a very recent proof of its impartiality.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She put down the letter, weighed every circumstance with what she meant to be impartiality—deliberated on the probability of each statement—but with little success.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Happy to find that she was not suspected of any extraordinary interest in it; that Mrs. Jennings (as she had of late often hoped might be the case) had ceased to imagine her at all attached to Edward; and happy above all the rest, in the absence of Marianne, she felt very well able to speak of the affair without embarrassment, and to give her judgment, as she believed, with impartiality on the conduct of every one concerned in it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

For the purity of her intentions she could answer; and she was willing to hope, secondly, that her uncle's displeasure was abating, and would abate farther as he considered the matter with more impartiality, and felt, as a good man must feel, how wretched, and how unpardonable, how hopeless, and how wicked it was to marry without affection.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Experience might have hoped more for any young people so circumstanced, and impartiality would not have denied to Miss Crawford's nature that participation of the general nature of women which would lead her to adopt the opinions of the man she loved and respected as her own.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)