the state of being equal
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
e•qual•i•ty
(i kwol′i tē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -ties.
- the state or quality of being equal;
correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability. - uniform character, as of motion or surface.
- Mathematicsa statement that two quantities are equal;
equation.
- Latin aequālitāt- (stem of aequālitās). See equal, -ity
- Middle English 1350–1400
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged equivalency, parity, correspondence, sameness; justice, fairness, impartiality.
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- Equality State
- Labour Party
- McKissick
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- New Left
- Tawney
- antiracism
- as
- balance
- black power
- brotherhood
- civil rights
- co-
- condescend
- condescension
- core
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- devote
- difference
- disadvantage
- disparage
- disparity
- disproportion
- egalitarian
- equal sign
- equalitarian
- equate
- equation
- equilibrium
- equinoctial
- equiponderance
- equivalence
- equivalence relation
- fraternity
- imparity
- inegalitarian
- inequality
- interracialism
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- isodynamic
- isogram
- isometric
- isometropia
- isometry