INEQUALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inequality mean? 

• INEQUALITY (noun)
  The noun INEQUALITY has 1 sense:

1. lack of equality

  Familiarity information: INEQUALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INEQUALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lack of equality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the growing inequality between rich and poor

Hypernyms ("inequality" is a kind of...):

difference (the quality of being unlike or dissimilar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inequality"):

nonequivalence (not interchangeable)

disparity (inequality or difference in some respect)

unevenness (the quality of being unbalanced)

Antonym:

equality (the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status)

 Context examples 

In the midst of them was a cart, a long leiter-wagon which swept from side to side, like a dog's tail wagging, with each stern inequality of the road.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There were no inequalities of surface.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty in our way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble, because we had no future.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A measurement of the inequality in the size of the red blood cells in a whole blood specimen.

(Anisocyte Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Excepting inequality of fortune, and perhaps a little disparity of age, I can see nothing unsuitable.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I exchanged my land-sledge for one fashioned for the inequalities of the Frozen Ocean, and purchasing a plentiful stock of provisions, I departed from land.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He shaved hairs from the back of his hand, glanced along the edge with microscopic acuteness, and found, or feigned that he found, always, a slight inequality in its edge somewhere.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Mrs Clay, said she, warmly, never forgets who she is; and as I am rather better acquainted with her sentiments than you can be, I can assure you, that upon the subject of marriage they are particularly nice, and that she reprobates all inequality of condition and rank more strongly than most people.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But as it was not to be supposed that Captain Tilney, whenever he made his application, would give his father any just idea of Isabella's conduct, it occurred to her as highly expedient that Henry should lay the whole business before him as it really was, enabling the general by that means to form a cool and impartial opinion, and prepare his objections on a fairer ground than inequality of situations.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)