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Equality vs Equalitarian - What's the difference?

equality | equalitarian |

As nouns the difference between equality and equalitarian

is that equality is the fact of being equal while equalitarian is a person who accepts or promotes the view of equalitarianism.

As an adjective equalitarian is

characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.

equality

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The fact of being equal.
  • (uncountable, mathematics) The fact of being equal, of having the same value.
  • (uncountable) The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.

    • Synonyms

    * (fact of being equal ): equivalence parity,

    Antonyms

    * (fact of being equal ): difference, inequality * (equal treatment of people ): discrimination, inequality nonequivilence

    equalitarian

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.
  • * 1957 , " The Queen's Husband," Time , 21 Oct.,
    • In the increasingly equalitarian Britain of the postwar years, Britain's monarchy found itself subject to a questioning, scarcely articulated, of the utility of an expensive royal household.

    Synonyms

    * egalitarian

    Derived terms

    * equalitarianism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who accepts or promotes the view of equalitarianism.

    • Synonyms

    * egalitarian

    References

    * * * * " equalitarian" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)