Oppression vs Equality - What's the difference?
oppression | equality |
The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
* (Sir Walter Raleigh)
The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
A feeling of being oppressed.
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, title= (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.
As nouns the difference between oppression and equality
is that oppression is the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner while equality is the fact of being equal.oppression
English
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- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions , imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}