inequalities
- 1Plural of inequality.
Economists study the inequalities that persist between regions despite overall economic growth.
Deep inequalities in access to healthcare became painfully visible during the crisis.
Note
Pluralizing turns a condition into a set of cases. In social talk, inequality on its own names a general state, while inequalities counts its separate forms: of income, of access, between regions. In mathematics each inequality is a single statement built on a sign such as < or ≥, so a problem can ask you to solve several inequalities at once. The older sense of unevenness pluralizes too, as in the inequalities of a rough surface.
inequalities is a form of inequality
inequality, noun: An unfair condition in which people or groups do not have equal status, rights, or resources. Full entry
- Forms
- inequalityinequalities plural
- Spelling
- inequality → inequalities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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