equality
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French equalité (modern French égalité), from Latin aequālitās, aequālitātem. Doublet of equity. By surface analysis, equal + -ity
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) enPR: ĭʹkwŏ-lĭ-tē IPA(key): /ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/, [ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ɾi]
Noun
[edit]equality (usually uncountable, plural equalities)
- The fact of being equal.
- (mathematics) The fact of being equal, of having the same value. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.
- 1964 December 13, Harry S. Truman, 8:26 from the start, in MP77-34 KCMO-TV News Segments, 1964-1966[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
- I think somebody asked me the other day when I was holding a conference over here at the library if a woman could be President of the United States. Well I said they've taken over everything else in the world, why not that? [Laughter] And that wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't happen one of these days because the country believes in equality.
- 2020 December 12, Ouyang Fei, “The Issue of Equality in the U.S. Election and Its Communist Roots”, in Minghui[2]:
- Jefferson was talking about the equality of natural human rights. You have freedom, and I have freedom. You and I have equal rights to freedom.
Synonyms
[edit]- (fact of being equal): equivalence, parity
Antonyms
[edit]- (fact of being equal): difference, inequality, nonequivilence
- (equal treatment of people): discrimination, inequality
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]fact of being equal
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mathematics: fact of having the same value
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equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences
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References
[edit]- “equality”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- equality in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "equality" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 117.
- “equality”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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