egalitarianism

See also: égalitarianism

English

Alternative forms

• égalitarianism

Etymology

From egalitarian +‎ -ism.

Noun

egalitarianism (countable and uncountable, plural egalitarianisms)

1. The political doctrine that holds that all people in a society should have equal rights from birth.
   • The gap between rich and poor is growing in ways that mock American middle-class egalitarianism. — Evan Thomas, Why It’s Time to Worry, Newsweek 2010-12-04

Synonyms

• equalitarianism

Derived terms

• antiegalitarianism
• nonegalitarianism

Related terms

• equalism

Translations

political doctrine of universal equality

• Arabic: مساواتية m
• Belarusian: эгалітары́зм m (ehalitarýzm)
• Bengali: সমতাবাদ m (śomtabad)
• Catalan: igualitarisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平均主義 / 平均主义 (zh) (píngjūnzhǔyì), 平等主義 / 平等主义 (zh) (píngděngzhǔyì)

• Czech: rovnostářství n
• Danish: egalitarisme c
• Dutch: egalitarisme (nl) n
• Finnish: egalitarismi, pyrkimys tasa-arvoon
• French: égalitarisme (fr) m
• German: Egalitarismus (de) m
• Hungarian: egalitarizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: jafnréttisstefna f
• Italian: egualitarismo (it) m
• Japanese: 平等主義 (ja) (びょうとうしゅぎ, byōtōshugi)
• Kazakh: теңгермешілдік (teñgermeşıldık)
• Korean: 평등주의(平等主義) (ko) (pyeongdeungjuui)
• Polish: egalitaryzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: igualitarismo (pt) m
• Russian: эгалитари́зм (ru) m (egalitarízm)
• Spanish: igualitarismo (es) m
• Swedish: egalitarism (sv) n
• Turkish: eşitlikçilik
• Ukrainian: егалітари́зм m (ehalitarýzm)

See also

• complementarianism
• socialism