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Inequality vs Insufficiency - What's the difference?

inequality | insufficiency |

As nouns the difference between inequality and insufficiency

is that inequality is an unfair, not equal, state while insufficiency is the lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.

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

    insufficiency

    English

    Noun

    (insufficiencies)
  • The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.
    • The troops went hungry because of the insufficiency of their supplies.

    Synonyms

    * unsufficiency (obsolete)