Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The state of being neutral; neutrality.
  • noun A political policy or advocacy of nonalignment or noninvolvement in conflicting alliances and of attempting to mediate or conciliate in conflicts between states.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character or state of being neutral; neutrality.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a policy of neutrality or nonalignment in international affairs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state of being neutral; neutrality.
  • noun A political policy of nonalignment in a situation of conflict.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a policy of neutrality or nonalignment in international affairs

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Examples

  • Nor can we see Germany going its own way in neutralism or towards the east, because that would be equally damaging to the new and emerging Europe.

    Conservative Party Policy in Britain 1967

  • Nevertheless, neutralism is still the foreign doctrine of all the nationalist Arab states, even though in Egypt at this moment it seems to mean not so much a good or tolerable relation with both blocs as bad terms with both.

    Oil, Power Politics and the Arab Awakening 1959

  • To me it seems like yet another sign that journalism is no longer going to be occupied that neutralism, but it will have more of a political partisan bent.

    Jay Rosen: The Politics of the New Huffington Post at AOL Jay Rosen 2011

  • To me it seems like yet another sign that journalism is no longer going to be occupied that neutralism, but it will have more of a political partisan bent.

    Jay Rosen: The Politics of the New Huffington Post at AOL Jay Rosen 2011

  • To me it seems like yet another sign that journalism is no longer going to be occupied that neutralism, but it will have more of a political partisan bent.

    Jay Rosen: The Politics of the New Huffington Post at AOL Jay Rosen 2011

  • We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved.

    Space: Sans-Serif Fresca 2010

  • We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Fresca 2010

  • In addition, by once more dazzling the world with cleverly packaged proposals, the self-assured Soviet leader displayed the seductive charms that could woo Western Europe into a neutered neutralism.

    American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009

  • More people need to be familiar with exaptations and neutralism … adaptation is not the only possibility.

    Blah, Blah! Technology 2009

  • He took neutralism in the cold war seriously, making trips to the Soviet Union and China (though to the White House as well).

    News Not Fit to Print: US Coup Planned for Venezuela? 2007

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