Noun
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, 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: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.
Translations
fact of being equal
- Albanian: njëjësi (sq) f
- Amharic: እኩልነት (ʾəkulnät)
- Arabic: مُسَاوَاة f (musāwāh)
- Gulf Arabic: مساواة (mʊsawat, mʊsawa)
- Armenian: հավասարություն (hy) (havasarutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: bərabərlik
- Belarusian: ро́ўнасць f (równascʹ)
- Bulgarian: ра́венство (bg) n (rávenstvo), еднаквост (bg) f (ednakvost)
- Catalan: igualtat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 平等 (zh) (píngděng), 均等 (zh) (jūnděng)
- Czech: rovnocennost f, rovnost (cs) f
- Danish: lighed (da) c
- Dutch: gelijkheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: egaleco
- Finnish: yhdenvertaisuus (fi), samanvertaisuus
- French: égalité (fr) f
- Galician: igualdade (gl) f
- Georgian: თანასწორობა (tanasc̣oroba)
- German: Gleichheit (de) f
- Gothic: 𐌹𐌱𐌽𐌰𐍃𐍃𐌿𐍃 m (ibnassus)
- Greek: ισότητα (el) f (isótita)
- Ancient Greek: ἰσότης f (isótēs)
- Hebrew: שוויון m (shivyón)
- Hindi: समानता (hi) f (samāntā)
- Hungarian: egyenlőség (hu)
- Ido: egaleso (io)
- Ilocano: arked
- Indonesian: kesamaan (id)
- Irish: comhionannas m, ionannas m
- Italian: parità (it) f, uguaglianza (it) f, eguaglianza f
- Japanese: 平等 (ja) (びょうどう, byōdō), 均等 (ja) (きんとう, kintō)
- Korean: 평등 (ko) (pyeongdeung), 균등 (ko) (gyundeung)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: wekhevî (ku) f, yeksanî (ku) f
- Latin: aequitās f, aequalitas f
- Latvian: vienlīdzība (lv) f
- Lithuanian: lygybė f
- Macedonian: еднаквост f (ednakvost)
- Malayalam: തുല്യത (ml) (tulyata)
- Maori: ōritetanga
- Neapolitan: eguaglianza f
- Norman: êgalité f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: likhet (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: likskap m
- Occitan: egalitat (oc) f
- Old English: efnlīcnes f
- Ottoman Turkish: استوا (istiva)
- Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) tekojoja
- Persian: برابری (fa) (barâbari)
- Plautdietsch: Äwareenheit f
- Polish: równość (pl) f
- Portuguese: igualdade (pt) f
- Romanian: egalitate (ro)
- Russian: ра́венство (ru) n (rávenstvo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: једнакост f
- Roman: jednakost (sh) f
- Slovak: rovnosť f
- Slovene: enakost f
- Spanish: igualdad (es) f
- Tajik: баробарӣ (barobari)
- Turkish: eşitlik (tr)
- Ukrainian: рі́вність f (rívnistʹ)
- Urdu: مساوات (musāvāt), برابری (barābarī), یکسانیت (yaksāniyat)
- Uzbek: tenglik (uz), baravarlik (uz)
- Welsh: cydraddoldeb f
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mathematics: fact of having the same value
equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences
- Albanian: barazi (sq) f
- Amharic: እኩልነት (ʾəkulnät)
- Arabic: مُسَاوَاة f (musāwāh)
- Armenian: հավասարություն (hy) (havasarutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: bərabərlik
- Belarusian: ро́ўнасць f (równascʹ), раўнапра́ўе n (rawnapráwje), раўнапра́ўнасць f (rawnapráwnascʹ)
- Bulgarian: равнопра́вие (bg) n (ravnoprávie)
- Catalan: igualtat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 平等 (zh) (píngděng)
- Czech: rovnost (cs) f
- Danish: ligebehandling c, ligestilling c
- Dutch: gelijkberechtiging (nl) f
- Estonian: võrdsus, samaväärsus
- Finnish: tasa-arvo (fi), tasa-arvoisuus (fi)
- French: égalité (fr) f
- Galician: igualdade (gl) f
- Georgian: თანასწორობა (tanasc̣oroba)
- German: Gleichberechtigung (de) f
- Hindi: समानता (hi) f (samāntā)
- Hungarian: egyenlőség (hu)
- Icelandic: jafnrétti (is) n
- Irish: comhionannas m
- Italian: egualità f, ugualità f, uguaglianza (it) f, eguaglianza
- Japanese: 平等 (ja) (びょうどう, byōdō)
- Kazakh: теңдік (teñdık)
- Korean: 평등(平等) (ko) (pyeongdeung)
- Kyrgyz: теңдик (ky) (teŋdik)
- Latvian: vienlīdzība (lv) f
- Lithuanian: lygybė f
- Macedonian: рамнопра́вност f (ramnoprávnost)
- Malay: kesetaraan, kesamaan (ms)
- Malayalam: സമത്വം (ml) (samatvaṁ)
- Maori: mana taurite
- Ngazidja Comorian: usawa class 11
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: likestilling m or f
- Nynorsk: likestilling f
- Old English: ġelīcnes f, efenlīcnes f
- Persian: برابری (fa) (barâbari)
- Polish: równość (pl) f, adekwacja f (literary)
- Portuguese: equidade (pt) f, igualdade (pt) f
- Romanian: egalitate (ro) f
- Russian: равнопра́вие (ru) n (ravnoprávije), ра́венство (ru) n (rávenstvo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: равноправност f, једнакост f
- Roman: ravnopravnost (sh) f, jednakost (sh) f
- Slovak: rovnosť f
- Slovene: enakopravnost f, enakost f
- Spanish: igualdad (es) f, paridad (es) f
- Swahili: usawa (sw)
- Swedish: likabehandling (sv) c, jämlikhet (sv) c, jämställdhet (sv) c
- Tajik: баробарӣ (barobari)
- Thai: ความเสมอภาค (th), ความเท่าเทียม (th) (kwaam-tâo-tiiam), สมภาพ
- Turkish: eşitlik (tr)
- Turkmen: deňlik
- Ukrainian: рі́вність f (rívnistʹ), рівнопра́вність f (rivnoprávnistʹ) (equal rights), рівнопра́в'я n (rivnoprávʺja)
- Uzbek: tenglik (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự bình đẳng (vi) (平等)
- Welsh: cydraddoldeb f
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Translations to be checked
See also
(social, legal):
- equity
- fairness (fairness is not always equality, but some inequality is unfair)
References
- “equality”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- equality in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- Raymond Williams (1983), “Equality”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 117
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “equality”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.