Related Searches
Nearby Words
impartiality
| Main Entry: |
impartiality
|
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evenhandedness |
| Synonyms: | equality, fairness, justice, neutrality, probity |
| Main Entry: | detachment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aloofness |
| Synonyms: | brown study, coldness, coolness, disinterestedness, dreaminess, impartiality, incuriosity, indifference, neutrality, nonpartisanship, objectivity, preoccupation, remoteness, reverie, unconcern, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | bias, compassion, interest, kindness, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | equality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | similarity, balance; egalitarianism |
| Synonyms: | adequation, civil rights, commensurateness, coordination, correspondence, equal opportunity, equatability, equilibrium, equipoise, equivalence, evenness, fair play, fair practice, fair shake, fairness, homology, identity, impartiality, isonomy, likeness, par, parallelism, parity, sameness, tolerance, uniformity |
| Antonyms: | difference, disproportion, dissimilarity, imbalance, inequality, unfairness |
| Main Entry: | fairness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | justice |
| Synonyms: | candor, charitableness, charity, civility, consideration, courtesy, decency, decorum, disinterestedness, due, duty, equitableness, equity, exactitude, fair shake, fair-mindedness, give and take, good faith, goodness, honesty, honor, humanity, impartiality, integrity, justness, legitimacy, moderation, open-mindedness, propriety, rationality, reasonableness, right, righteousness, rightfulness, rightness, seemliness, square deal, suitability, tolerance, truth, uprightness, veracity |
| Antonyms: | inequity, injustice, partiality, unfairness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | indifference |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absence of feeling, interest |
| Synonyms: | alienation, aloofness, apathy, callousness, carelessness, cold shoulder, cold-bloodedness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disdain, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, disregard, equity, heedlessness, immunity, impartiality, impassiveness, impassivity, inattention, inertia, insensitivity, insouciance, isolationism, lack, lethargy, listlessness, negligence, neutrality, nonchalance, noninterference, objectivity, stoicism, torpor, unconcern, unmindfulness |
| Antonyms: | caring, compassion, concern, feeling, interest, involvement, regard, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | justice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lawfulness, fairness |
| Synonyms: | amends, appeal, authority, authorization, charter, code, compensation, consideration, constitutionality, correction, credo, creed, decree, due process, equity, evenness, fair play, fair treatment, hearing, honesty, impartiality, integrity, judicatory, judicature, justness, law, legal process, legality, legalization, legitimacy, litigation, penalty, reasonableness, recompense, rectitude, redress, reparation, review, right, rule, sanction, sentence, square deal, truth |
| Notes: | revenge is personal and justice is societal |
| Antonyms: | illegality, injustice, lawlessness, partiality, unethicalness, unfairness |
| Main Entry: | sincerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | straightforwardness, honesty |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, bona fides, candor, earnestness, frankness, genuineness, good faith, goodwill, guilelessness, heart, honor, impartiality, innocence, justice, openness, probity, reliability, seriousness, sincereness, singleness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, veracity, wholeheartedness |
| Antonyms: | dishonesty, insincerity, untrustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | veracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truth |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, authenticity, candor, correctness, credibility, exactitude, exactness, fact, fairness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, gospel, honest-to-god truth, honesty, honor, impartiality, integrity, like it is, openness, precision, probity, real McCoy, reality, rectitude, rightness, sincerity, straight stuff, trueness, truism, trustworthiness, truthfulness, uprightness, verisimilitude, verity, word* |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, falsity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disinterest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fairness |
| Synonyms: | detachment, disinterestedness, dispassion, dispassionateness, equitableness, equity, fair-mindedness, impartiality, impartialness, justice, neutrality, nonpartisanship, objectiveness, objectivity, rightfulness, rightness |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
