When there's an inequality, something is out of balance and things are not equal. An inequality occurs in math when the two quantities are not the same measure or amount.
The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity;
Noun
lack of equality; "the growing inequality between rich and poor"
n.
The quality of being unequal; difference, or want 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.
n.
Unevenness; want 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.
n.
Variableness; changeableness; inconstancy; lack of
smoothness or equability; deviation; unsteadiness, as of the weather,
feelings, etc.
n.
Disproportion to any office or purpose; inadequacy;
competency; as, the inequality of terrestrial things to the wants of a
rational soul.
n.
An expression consisting of two unequal quantities,
with the sign of inequality (< or >) between them; as, the inequality 2
< 3, or 4 > 1.
n.
An irregularity, or a deviation, in the motion of a
planet or satellite from its uniform mean motion; the amount of such
deviation.
Inequality
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.
Notwithstanding which inequality of number, it was resolved in a council of war to fight the Dutch fleet.
Sympathy is rarely strong where there is a great inequality of condition.2.
The country is cut into so many hills and inequalities as renders it defensible.3.
Inequality of air is ever an enemy to health.4.
The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity;
Usage Examples
I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.
Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive.
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Other Usage ExamplesAll that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.
You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
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