equality

noun
/ɪˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/UK/ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/US/ikwɔlɪʈi/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French equalité (modern French égalité), from Latin aequālitās, aequālitātem. Doublet of equity. By surface analysis, equal + -ity

  1. derived from aequalitas
  2. borrowed from equalité

Definitions

  1. The fact of being equal.

    • The most powerful of these general ideas which have shaped political development in recent times is of course the ideal of material equality.
  2. The fact of being equal, of having the same value.

  3. The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at equality. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at equality. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at equality

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA