Equality vs Merit - What's the difference?
equality | merit |
(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.
Something deserving positive recognition.
Something worthy of a high rating.
A claim to commendation or reward.
The quality of deserving reward.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation.
* Prior
(obsolete) The quality or state of deserving either good or bad; desert.
* Shakespeare
To earn or to deserve.
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To be worthy or deserving.
(obsolete, rare) To reward.
As nouns the difference between equality and merit
is that equality is the fact of being equal while merit is something deserving positive recognition.As a verb merit is
to earn or to deserve.equality
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
Synonyms
* (fact of being equal ): equivalence parity,Antonyms
* (fact of being equal ): difference, inequality * (equal treatment of people ): discrimination, inequality nonequivilencemerit
English
Noun
(en noun)- His reward for his merit was a check for $50.
- Reputation is oft got without merit , and lost without deserving.
- To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, / And every author's merit , but his own.
- His teacher gave him ten merits .
- those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth
- Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought / For things that others do; and when we fall, / We answer others' merits in our name.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)Antonyms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- (Chapman)