inequality

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Absence of equality.

   “The inequality in living standards led to a civil war as the have-nots rebelled.”

   “The traditional inequalities of marriage, such as changing her surname to his.”

   “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.”

   “With the growing awareness of climate change, congestion, and regional inequality, rail transport has re-emerged as a solution.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Absence of equality.

   “The inequality x is less than y, together with that ylt;z, allows us to deduce the inequality xlt;z.”

   “I then specify a set of new tight Bell inequalities for arbitrary event spaces -- the "even/odd" inequalities -- which have a straightforward interpretation when expressed in terms of multideviations.”

3. (countable, uncountable)Absence of equality.

   “When we behold a wide, turf-covered expanse, we should remember that its smoothness, upon which so much of its beauty depends, is mainly due to all the inequalities having been levelled by worms.”