inequality
/ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The inequality in living standards led to a civil war as the have-nots rebelled."
- "The traditional inequalities of marriage, such as changing her surname to his."
- "In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised."
- "With the growing awareness of climate change, congestion, and regional inequality, rail transport has re-emerged as a solution."
- "The inequality x is less than y, together with that ylt;z, allows us to deduce the inequality xlt;z."
- "I then specify a set of new tight Bell inequalities for arbitrary event spaces -- the "even/odd" inequalities -- which have a straightforward interpretation when expressed in terms of multideviations."
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: inequalite, inequalité, inaequālitās, inaequālis
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/
- British English: /ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/
Usage
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Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
unequality
unequalness
inequalness
inequation
difference
disparity
imparity
inequality
nonequivilence
unevenness