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Unequal vs Inequality - What's the difference?

unequal | inequality |

As an adjective unequal

is not the same.

As a noun inequality is

an unfair, not equal, state.

unequal

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete) * (qualifier) * unequall (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not the same.
  • Out of balance.
  • 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