equalityとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Middle French equalité (modern French égalité), from Latin aequālitās, aequālitātem. Doublet of equity.

Morphologically equal +‎ -ity

発音

• (米国発音) enPR: ĭʹkwŏl-ĭ-tē IPA^(key): /ɪˈkwɑl.ɪ.ti/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɪˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/

名詞

equality (usually uncountable, 複数形 equalities)

1. The fact of being equal.
2. (mathematics) The fact of being equal, of having the same value. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.
   • 1964 December 13, Truman, Harry S., MP77-34 KCMO-TV News Segments, 1964-1966‎^[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162, 8:26 from the start:

     I think somebody asked me the other day when I was holding a conference over here at the library if a woman could be President of the United States. Well I said they've taken over everything else in the world, why not that? [Laughter] And that wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't happen one of these days because the country believes in equality.

   • 2020 December 12, Ouyang Fei, “The Issue of Equality in the U.S. Election and Its Communist Roots”, in Minghui‎^[2]:

     Jefferson was talking about the equality of natural human rights. You have freedom, and I have freedom. You and I have equal rights to freedom.

同意語

• (fact of being equal): equivalence parity

反意語

• (fact of being equal): difference, inequality, nonequivilence
• (equal treatment of people): discrimination, inequality