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Inequality vs Imbalance - What's the difference?

inequality | imbalance |

As nouns the difference between inequality and imbalance

is that inequality is an unfair, not equal, state while imbalance is the property of not being in balance.

inequality

English

(wikipedia inequality)

Alternative forms

* (qualifier)

Noun

(inequalities)
  • An unfair, not equal, state.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
    • , 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

    imbalance

    English

    Noun

    (balance) (en-noun)
  • The property of not being in balance.
    • The growing imbalances between the rich and poor first lead to more crime.
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban'' (in ''The Guardian , 6 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/06/england-moldova-world-cup-qualifier-matchreport]
    • Ross Barkley, a second-half substitute, almost marked his debut with a goal but by that stage England were playing at half-pace. A team can do that when the imbalance of talent is this considerable.