equality

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The fact of being equal.

   The most powerful of these general ideas which have shaped political development in recent times is of course the ideal of material equality.

2. 2
   noun

   The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

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

4. 4
   noun

   a state of being essentially equal or equivalent

5. 5
   noun

   The fact of being equal, of having the same value.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French equalité (modern French égalité), from Latin aequālitās, aequālitātem. Doublet of equity. By surface analysis, equal + -ity