equality B1 Topic:Social Issues & Human Rights US /ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/ UK /ɪˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/ See IPA manual Freq #11047 Meanings 1 noun The state of everyone being treated the same and having the same rights. The movement fought for racial and gender equality. 2 noun The state of being equal in amount, value, or status. The treaty aimed at equality between the two nations. Thesaurus Synonyms 2 noun · the state of being equal in... parityequivalence More egalityequationevennessparsameness ↔ Opposites differencediscriminationhierarchyinequalitynonequivalence Word family Forms equalities Derived forms antiequalitycoequalitydisequalityequalitariannonequalityunequality Related forms balanceequilibriumequityfairnessstabilitysymmetry Etymology AI details Borrowed from Middle French equalité (modern French égalité), from Latin aequālitās, aequālitātem. Doublet of equity. By surface analysis, equal + -ity aequalitas Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Social Issues & Human Rights External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # equality **Type:** Word **Level:** B1 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/ **IPA (UK):** /ɪˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/ **Frequency rank:** 11047 ## Meanings 1. The state of everyone being treated the same and having the same rights. 2. The state of being equal in amount, value, or status. ## Examples - The movement fought for racial and gender equality. - The treaty aimed at equality between the two nations. ## Synonyms - egality - equation - evenness - par - sameness ## Antonyms - difference - discrimination - hierarchy - inequality - nonequivalence ## Derived Forms - antiequality - coequality - disequality - equalitarian - nonequality - unequality ## Related Forms - balance - equilibrium - equity - fairness - stability - symmetry ## Roots and Affixes - Root: aequalitas - Affix: -ity - state ## Etymology Borrowed from Middle French equalité (modern French égalité), from Latin aequālitās, aequālitātem. Doublet of equity. By surface analysis, equal + -ity ## AI Etymology Equality is borrowed from Middle French equalité (modern French égalité), from Latin aequālitās, aequālitātem. Doublet of equity. By surface analysis, equal + -ity. In current use, the main senses are “The state of everyone being treated the same and having the same rights” and “The state of being equal in amount, value, or status”. ## Topics - Social Issues & Human Rights markdown