equality

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French equalité (modern French égalité), from Latin aequālitās, aequālitātem. Doublet of equity. Morphologically equal + -ity

noun

1. The fact of being equal.
2. (mathematics) The fact of being equal, of having the same value.
3. The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.
   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. December 13, 1964, Harry S. Truman, 8:26 from the start, in MP77-34 KCMO-TV News Segments, 1964-1966, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162
   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. December 12, 2020, Ouyang Fei, “The Issue of Equality in the U.S. Election and Its Communist Roots”, in Minghui