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 ofconflict .
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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved.
Space: Sans-Serif Fresca 2010
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We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved.
Archive 2010-02-01 Fresca 2010
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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
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More people need to be familiar with exaptations and neutralism … adaptation is not the only possibility.
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He took neutralism in the cold war seriously, making trips to the Soviet Union and China (though to the White House as well).
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