Politics and Social Science
- Neutrality (international relations), where a polity such as a state favors or supports none of the parties involved in a disagreement, conflict or war.
- Neutral territory, territory belonging to no particular sovereign state.
- Neutrality of money, the notion that a change in the supply of money in an economy has no tangible effects.
- Neuter gender, a form of noun classification in linguistics.
- Neutrality (philosophy), the absence of declared or intentional bias.
- Neutral level, the physical or material traces of esthesic and poietic processes identified in semiotics.
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