n. The state of being neutral or of being unengaged in a dispute or contest between others; the taking of no part on either side; in international law, the attitude and condition of a nation or state which does not take part directly or indirectly in a war between other states, but maintains relations of amity with all the contending parties.n. Indifference in quality; a state neither very good nor very evil.n. The state of being of the neuter gender.n. In chem., the state of being neither acid nor basic; absence of the power to saturate or combine with either an acid or a basen. Synonyms Neutrality, Indifference. A nation may be very far from viewing or regarding with indifference a war between two of its neighbors, and yet it may preserve a strict neutrality—that is, it may refrain strictly from helping the one that it wishes to see victorious or hindering the one that it wishes to see defeated.