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Plural of inequality

regular plural

The plural of inequality is inequalities.

Forms of inequality

Singularinequality /ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti/
Pluralinequalities
Countablecountable and uncountable

Inequalities in a sentence

  • The traditional inequalities of marriage, such as changing her surname to his.1976 February 14, A. Nolder Gay, “The View from the Closet”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 17
  • Are there blatant inequalities in distribution and is 'countercapital' produced that is counter-productive to effective medical practice?2015, Alan Bleakley, Medical Humanities and Medical Education, →ISBN. From the entry countercapital
  • Trophy-hunting reflects inequalities in money and mobility, and sometimes also insensitivity to conservation practices or local politics.2014 June 29, Louisa Lombard, “Blame War, Not Safaris”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry trophy-hunting
  • Of all inequalities, these things make people far angrier than anything else, even angrier than financial inequalities.2001, Polly Toynbee (discussant), “A Roundtable Discussion on the Prospects for a Progressive Century”, in Neal Lawson, Neil Sherlock…. From the entry postcode lottery
  • The modernist rejection of hierarchy is accompanied by certain unacceptable forms of levelisation and new inequalities.2001, N. N. Vohra, Culture, Democracy And Development In South Asia, page 19. From the entry levelisation

Meaning of inequality

  1. noun A condition or state (of social, cultural, or legal matters) that is not equal; especially, such a condition that is thereby also unfair.
  2. noun A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: < or ≤ or > or ≥ or ne , as appropriate.
  3. noun Unevenness, irregularity.

Full definition of inequality

Questions about the plural of inequality

What is the plural of inequality?
The plural of inequality is inequalities.
Is inequality countable?
Inequality is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inequality (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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