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Borrowed from Middle French equalité égalité Latin aequālitās, aequālitātem Doublet of equity surface analysis , equal -ity
equality (usually uncountable , plural equalities
The fact of being equal .
( mathematics ) (Can we add an example for this sense?) The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.
1964 December 13, Harry S. Truman , 8:26 from the start, in MP77-34 KCMO-TV News Segments, 1964-1966 [1] Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum , National Archives Identifier: 595162 :I think somebody asked me the other day when I was holding a conference over here at the library if a woman could be President of the United States. Well I said they've taken over everything else in the world, why not that? [Laughter ] And that wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't happen one of these days because the country believes in equality .
2020 December 12, Ouyang Fei, “The Issue of Equality in the U.S. Election and Its Communist Roots”, in Minghui [2] Jefferson was talking about the equality of natural human rights. You have freedom, and I have freedom. You and I have equal rights to freedom.
fact of being equal
Amharic: እኩልነት ( ʾəkulnät )
Arabic: مُسَاوَاة f ( musāwāh )
Gulf Arabic: مساواة ( mʊsawat, mʊsawa )
Armenian: հավասարություն (hy) ( havasarutʻyun )
Azerbaijani: bərabərlik
Belarusian: ро́ўнасць f ( róŭnascʹ )
Bulgarian: ра́венство (bg) n ( rávenstvo ) , еднаквост (bg) f ( ednakvost )
Catalan: igualtat (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 平等 (zh) ( píngděng ) , 均等 (zh) ( jūnděng )
Czech: rovnocennost f rovnost (cs) f
Danish: lighed (da) c
Dutch: gelijkheid (nl) f
Esperanto: egaleco
Finnish: yhdenvertaisuus (fi) , samanvertaisuus
French: égalité (fr) f
Galician: igualdade (gl) f
Georgian: თანასწორობა ( tanasc̣oroba )
German: Gleichheit (de) f
Gothic: 𐌹𐌱𐌽𐌰𐍃𐍃𐌿𐍃 m ( ibnassus )
Greek: ισότητα (el) f ( isótita )
Ancient: ἰσότης f ( isótēs )
Guaraní: tekojoja
Hebrew: שוויון m ( shivyón )
Hindi: समानता (hi) f ( samāntā )
Hungarian: egyenlőség (hu)
Ido: egaleso (io)
Ilocano: arked
Indonesian: kesamaan (id)
Irish: comhionannas m ionannas m
Italian: parità (it) f uguaglianza (it) f eguaglianza f
Japanese: 平等 (ja) ( びょうどう, byōdō ) , 均等 (ja) ( きんとう, kintō )
Korean: 평등 (ko) ( pyeongdeung ) , 균등 (ko) ( gyundeung )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: wekhevî (ku) f yeksanî (ku) f
Latin: aequitās f aequalitas f
Latvian: vienlīdzība (lv) f
Lithuanian: lygybė f
Macedonian: еднаквост f ( ednakvost )
Malayalam: തുല്യത (ml) ( tulyata )
Maori: ōritetanga
Neapolitan: eguaglianza f
Norman: êgalité f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: likhet (no) m or f
Nynorsk: likskap m
Occitan: egalitat (oc) f
Old English: efnlīcnes f
Ottoman Turkish: استوا ( istiva )
Persian: برابری (fa) ( barâbari )
Plautdietsch: Äwareenheit f
Polish: równość (pl) f
Portuguese: igualdade (pt) f
Romanian: egalitate (ro)
Russian: ра́венство (ru) n ( rávenstvo )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: једнакост f
Roman: jednakost (sh) f
Slovak: rovnosť f
Slovene: enakost f
Spanish: igualdad (es) f
Tajik: баробарӣ ( barobari )
Turkish: eşitlik (tr)
Ukrainian: рі́вність f ( rívnistʹ )
Urdu: مساوات ( musāvāt ) , برابری ( barābarī ) , یکسانیت ( yaksāniyat )
Uzbek: tenglik (uz) , baravarlik (uz)
Welsh: cydraddoldeb f
mathematics: fact of having the same value
equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences
Albanian: barazi (sq) f
Amharic: እኩልነት ( ʾəkulnät )
Arabic: مُسَاوَاة f ( musāwāh )
Armenian: հավասարություն (hy) ( havasarutʻyun )
Azerbaijani: bərabərlik
Belarusian: ро́ўнасць f ( róŭnascʹ ) , раўнапра́ўе n ( raŭnapráŭje ) , раўнапра́ўнасць f ( raŭnapráŭnascʹ )
Bulgarian: равнопра́вие (bg) n ( ravnoprávie )
Catalan: igualtat (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 平等 (zh) ( píngděng )
Czech: rovnost (cs) f
Danish: ligebehandling c ligestilling c
Dutch: gelijkberechtiging (nl) f
Estonian: võrdsus samaväärsus
Finnish: tasa-arvo (fi) , tasa-arvoisuus (fi)
French: égalité (fr) f
Galician: igualdade (gl) f
Georgian: თანასწორობა ( tanasc̣oroba )
German: Gleichberechtigung (de) f
Hindi: समानता (hi) f ( samāntā )
Hungarian: egyenlőség (hu)
Icelandic: jafnrétti (is) n
Irish: comhionannas m
Italian: egualità f ugualità f uguaglianza (it) f eguaglianza
Japanese: 平等 (ja) ( びょうどう, byōdō )
Kazakh: теңдік ( teñdık )
Korean: 평등(平等) (ko) ( pyeongdeung )
Kyrgyz: теңдик (ky) ( teŋdik )
Latvian: vienlīdzība (lv) f
Lithuanian: lygybė f
Macedonian: рамнопра́вност f ( ramnoprávnost )
Malay: kesetaraan kesamaan (ms)
Malayalam: സമത്വം (ml) ( samatvaṁ )
Maori: mana taurite
Ngazidja Comorian: usawa class 11
Norwegian:
Bokmål: likestilling m or f
Nynorsk: likestilling f
Old English: ġelīcnes f efenlīcnes f
Persian: برابری (fa) ( barâbari )
Polish: równość (pl) f adekwacja f ( literary )
Portuguese: equidade (pt) f igualdade (pt) f
Romanian: egalitate (ro) f
Russian: равнопра́вие (ru) n ( ravnoprávije ) , ра́венство (ru) n ( rávenstvo )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: равноправност f једнакост f
Roman: ravnopravnost (sh) f jednakost (sh) f
Slovak: rovnosť f
Slovene: enakopravnost f enakost f
Spanish: igualdad (es) f paridad (es) f
Swahili: usawa (sw)
Swedish: likabehandling (sv) c jämlikhet (sv) c jämställdhet (sv) c
Tajik: баробарӣ ( barobari )
Thai: ความเสมอภาค (th) , ความเท่าเทียม (th) ( kwaam-tâo-tiiam ) , สมภาพ
Turkish: eşitlik (tr)
Turkmen: deňlik
Ukrainian: рі́вність f ( rívnistʹ ) , рівнопра́вність f ( rivnoprávnistʹ ) ( equal rights ) , рівнопра́в'я n ( rivnoprávʺja )
Uzbek: tenglik (uz)
Vietnamese: sự bình đẳng (vi)
Welsh: cydraddoldeb f
Translations to be checked
“equality ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search . equality in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary , edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
"equality" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 117.
“equality ”, in The Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. , 1911 , →OCLC 
