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impartiality

noun

impartiality is spelled I-M-P-A-R-T-I-A-L-I-T-Y: 12 letters and 6 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, impartiality means “The quality of being impartial; fairness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of impartiality is impartialities.

How many letters and syllables are in impartiality?

Letters12: I-M-P-A-R-T-I-A-L-I-T-Y
Syllables6 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 32,393rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is impartiality?

Impartiality appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce impartiality?

Impartiality has 6 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-impartiality.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of impartiality

  • impartialities plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does impartiality mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The quality of being impartial; fairness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Impartiality in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the quality of being impartial; fairness:

LanguageWords
Frenchimpartialité
GermanUnvoreingenommenheit, Unparteilichkeit, Objektivität
Portugueseimparcialidade
Spanishimparcialidad

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does impartiality come from?

From Middle French impartialité. By surface analysis, impartial + -ity = im- + partial + -ity.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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