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Egalitarianism vs Status - What's the difference?

egalitarianism | status |

As nouns the difference between egalitarianism and status

is that egalitarianism is while status is status.

egalitarianism

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(wikipedia egalitarianism) (-)
  • 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 .'' — , '' Why It’s Time to Worry , Newsweek 2010-12-04

    • Related terms

    * equalism

    Synonyms

    * equalitarianism

    See also

    * complementarianism * socialism English words suffixed with -ism

    status

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
  • Prestige or high standing.
  • * 1957 , Gladys Sellew and Paul Hanly Furfey, Sociology and Its Use in Nursing Service , Saunders, page 81
    • The king has status' in his kingdom, and the pauper has ' status within his immediate group of peers.
  • A situation or state of affairs.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-03-15, volume=410, issue=8878, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Turn it off , passage=If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast's status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.}}
  • (label) The legal condition of a person or thing.
  • # The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the .
  • He is a status Indian.
  • (label) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.

    • Derived terms

    * status quo * status symbol