impartiality means the quality of being impartial; fairness. It carries an Arena rating of 1354, earned across 56 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, impartiality ranks #5,486 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #9,088 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words, #9,976 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #10,402 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words.
Why “impartiality” is a great word
IMPARTIALITY — [Noun] The quality of being unbiased and fair in judgment or treatment. From Middle French impartialité, from impartial (from im- ("not") + partial ("biased")) + the noun-forming suffix -ity ("quality of"). Unlike partiality, which implies a culpable tilt, or bias, which denotes a settled and unreasoned slant, impartiality is a deliberate, cultivated abstention. It is the unweighted scale in a still room, the scent of rain-washed air carrying no trace of smoke from either camp, and the listening silence of a judge who hears the same tone of pleading from every supplicant—a virtue achieved not by feeling nothing, but by holding everything in perfect, weightless suspension, the chilling and necessary geometry of justice.
Etymology
From Middle French impartialité. By surface analysis, impartial + -ity = im- + partial + -ity.
noun
- The quality of being impartial; fairness.
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