The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inequality \In`e*qual"i*ty\, n.; pl. Inequalities. [L. inaequalitas.]
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The quality of being unequal; difference, or lack of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity; as, an inequality in size, stature, numbers, power, distances, motions, rank, property, etc.
There is so great an inequality in the length of our legs and arms as makes it impossible for us to walk on all four.
--Ray.Notwithstanding which inequality of number, it was resolved in a council of war to fight the Dutch fleet.
--Ludlow.Sympathy is rarely strong where there is a great inequality of condition.
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Unevenness; lack of levelness; the alternate rising and falling of a surface; as, the inequalities of the surface of the earth, or of a marble slab, etc.
The country is cut into so many hills and inequalities as renders it defensible.
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Variableness; changeableness; inconstancy; lack of smoothness or equability; deviation; unsteadiness, as of the weather, feelings, etc.
Inequality of air is ever an enemy to health.
--Bacon. Disproportion to any office or purpose; inadequacy; competency; as, the inequality of terrestrial things to the wants of a rational soul.
--South.(Alg.) An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality (.gt. or .lt.) between them; as, the inequality 2 .lt. 3, or 4 .gt. 1.
(Astron.) An irregularity, or a deviation, in the motion of a planet or satellite from its uniform mean motion; the amount of such deviation.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of inequality English)
Usage examples of "inequalities".
Those historical inequalities have cast long shadows on the modern world, because the literate societies with metal tools have conquered or exterminated the other societies.
Thus, we can finally rephrase the question about the modern world's inequalities as follows: why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents?
We're assured that the seemingly transparent biological explanation for the world's inequalities as of a.
We’re assured that the seemingly transparent biological explanation for the world’s inequalities as of A.
Every step in political improvement renders it more so, by removing the sources of opposition of interest, and levelling those inequalities of legal privilege between individuals or classes, owing to which there are large portions of mankind whose happiness it is still practicable to disregard.
And hence all social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have.