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Inequality vs Dissimilitude - What's the difference?

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Inequality is a related term of dissimilitude.


As nouns the difference between inequality and dissimilitude

is that inequality is an unfair, not equal, state while dissimilitude is the quality of being diverse or different; difference or variety.

inequality

English

(wikipedia inequality)

Alternative forms

* (qualifier)

Noun

(inequalities)
  • An unfair, not equal, state.
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    • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]  The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}
    The inequality in living standards led to a civil war as the have nots rebelled.
  • (mathematics) A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: < or ? or > or ? or ?, as appropriate.
    • The inequality''' x is less than y, together with that y x

    Synonyms

    * (statement in mathematics) inequation

    See also

    *

    Hyponyms

    * Cauchy-Schwarz inequality * triangle inequality

    dissimilitude

    English

    Noun

  • The quality of being diverse or different; difference or variety.

    • Antonyms

    * (quality of being diverse) (l)