Dictionary

egalitarianism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English egalitarian Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English egalitarianism From egalitarian + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The political doctrine that holds that all people in a society should have equal rights from birth.
   • The gap between rich and poor is growing in ways that mock American middle-class egalitarianism. 2010 December 4, “The Deepest Dangers Facing the United States”, in Newsweek:

Forms

Deriveds

nonegalitarianism · antiegalitarianism

Relateds

socialism · complementarianism · equalism

Synonyms

equalitarianism

Translations (26)

nl egalitarisme (political doctrine of universal equality) · fi pyrkimys tasa-arvoon (political doctrine of universal equality) · pt igualitarismo (political doctrine of universal equality) · bn সমতাবাদ (political doctrine of universal equality) · be эгалітары́зм (political doctrine of universal equality) · uk егалітари́зм (political doctrine of universal equality) · cmn 平等主義 /平等主义 (political doctrine of universal equality) · ar مساواتية (political doctrine of universal equality) · kk теңгермешілдік (political doctrine of universal equality) · tr eşitlikçilik (political doctrine of universal equality) · da egalitarisme (political doctrine of universal equality) · hu egalitarizmus (political doctrine of universal equality) · ru эгалитари́зм (political doctrine of universal equality) · ja 平等主義 (political doctrine of universal equality) · es igualitarismo (political doctrine of universal equality) · ca igualitarisme (political doctrine of universal equality) · fi egalitarismi (political doctrine of universal equality) · de Egalitarismus (political doctrine of universal equality) · is jafnréttisstefna (political doctrine of universal equality) · cmn 平均主義 /平均主义 (political doctrine of universal equality) · cs rovnostářství (political doctrine of universal equality) · pl egalitaryzm (political doctrine of universal equality) · ko 평등주의 (political doctrine of universal equality) · fr égalitarisme (political doctrine of universal equality) · sv egalitarism (political doctrine of universal equality) · it egualitarismo (political doctrine of universal equality)