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EQUALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equality mean? 

EQUALITY (noun)
  The noun EQUALITY has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or statusplay

2. a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balancedplay

  Familiarity information: EQUALITY used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EQUALITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("equality" is a kind of...):

sameness (the quality of being alike)

Attribute:

equal (having the same quantity, value, or measure as another)

unequal (poorly balanced or matched in quantity or value or measure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "equality"):

equatability (capability of being equated)

equivalence (essential equality and interchangeability)

evenness (the quality of being balanced)

isometry (equality of measure (e.g., equality of height above sea level or equality of loudness etc.))

balance (equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account)

Antonym:

inequality (lack of equality)

Derivation:

equal (having the same quantity, value, or measure as another)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

equality; equation; equivalence; par

Context example:

on a par with the best

Hypernyms ("equality" is a kind of...):

position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "equality"):

egalite; egality (social and political equality)

tie (equality of score in a contest)


 Context examples 


Miss Abbot joined in—And you ought not to think yourself on an equality with the Misses Reed and Master Reed, because Missis kindly allows you to be brought up with them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And you call me a socialist because I deny equality, because I affirm just what you live up to.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect equality, as they were frequently together.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After whom I remember nothing but an average equality of failure.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is not by equality of merit that you can be won.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In the case where mathematical or chemical objects contain arbitrary variables, such a requirement may mean finding those values of the variables that turn the equation into equality.

(Equation, NCI Thesaurus)

The very want of such equality might prevent his perception of it; but he must know that in fortune and consequence she was greatly his superior.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavour to do himself honour among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

All equality of alliance must rest with Elizabeth, for Mary had merely connected herself with an old country family of respectability and large fortune, and had therefore given all the honour and received none: Elizabeth would, one day or other, marry suitably.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Homogenous dietary habits, together with ritual and funerary practices in which the emphasis was on community rather than the individual, show that Megalithic peoples were characterized by social relations that were fundamentally based on values ​​such as equality, reciprocity, and solidarity.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)



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