inequality

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An unfair difference between groups of people, especially in wealth or opportunity.

   The growing inequality between rich and poor worried economists.

From Middle English inequalite, from Old French inequalité, from Medieval Latin inaequālitās, from Latin inaequālis (“unequal”), from in- (“not”) + aequālis (“equal”). Morphologically inequal + -ity and in- + equality.

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