Inequality

Noun

 * 1) An unfair, not equal, state.
 * The inequality in living standards led to a civil war as the have nots rebelled.
 * 1)  A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: < or ≤ or > or ≥, as appropriate.
 * The inequality x is less than y, together with that y<z, allows us to deduce the inequality x<z.

Synonyms

 * inequation

Hyponyms

 * Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
 * triangle inequality

Verbs for Inequality
complain of—; conduce to—; consider—; detect—; dispute—; frown on—; grieve over—; lament—; observe—; occasion—; owe to—; reconcile—; rectify—; treat with —; —glares; —shocks. —unbalances.

Thesaurus
antagonism, argumentation, asperity, bias, bumpiness, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, clashing, conflict, contradiction, contrariety, contrast, controversy, cragginess, dappleness, departure, deviation, difference, differentiation, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, discrimination, disharmony, disorder, disparity, disproportion, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, disunion, disunity, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversity, faction, far cry, favoritism, granulation, harshness, heterogeneity, hispidity, imbalance, imparity, inaccordance, inclination, incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconstancy, inequity, inharmoniousness, inharmony, injustice, instability, interest, involvement, irreconcilability, irregularity, jaggedness, jarring, jerkiness, joltiness, leaning, mercuriality, mixture, motleyness, mutability, negation, nepotism, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, odds, one-sidedness, opposition, oppugnancy, otherness, parti pris, partiality, partisanism, partisanship, pluralism, preference, preferential treatment, prejudice, raggedness, repugnance, rough air, roughness, ruggedness, rugosity, scraggliness, separateness, tooth, turbulence, unconformism, unconformity, undetachment, undispassionateness, unevenness, unfairness, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unneutrality, unorthodoxy, unsmoothness, unsteadiness, ununiformity, variability, variance, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wavering

Alternative forms

 * inæquality

Etymology
From inégalité, from  inaequalitas, from inaequalis, "unequal," from in- "not" + aequalis "equal"

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Danish: ulighed
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German: Ungleichheit
 * Greek: ανισότητα
 * Japanese: 不平等
 * Romanian: inegalitate
 * Spanish:


 * Czech:
 * Danish: ulighed
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: erisuuruus
 * German:


 * Greek: ανισότητα
 * Italian:
 * Polish: nierówność
 * Spanish: inecuación
 * Swedish: