neutralization

Alternative forms

 * neutralisation (British)

Etymology
Borrowed from French neutralisation. Surface etymology is neutral +‎ -ization or neutralize +‎ -ation.

Etymology
From Middle French neutral (compare modern French neutre), from Latin neutralis.

Etymology
From neuter (“neither”) +‎ -ālis.

Etymology
From ne (“not”) +‎ uter (“either”). In the grammatical sense, a semantic loan from Koine Greek οὐδέτερος (oudéteros), from οὐδέ (oudé, “not”) +‎ ἕτερος (héteros, “one or the other (of two)”).