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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prejudice; lack of balance |
| Synonyms: | asperity, bias, contrast, difference, discrimination, disparity, disproportion, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, diversity, imparity, incommensurateness, injustice, irregularity, one-sidedness, partisanship, preferentiality, roughness, unequivalence, unevenness, unfairness, unjustness, variation |
| Antonyms: | balance, equality, evenness, similarity |
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| Concept: | [Difference of quantity or degree] Inequality. |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
inequality; disparity, imparity; odds; difference; unevenness; inclination of the balance, partiality, bias, weight; shortcoming; casting weight, make- weight; superiority; inferiority; inequation.
-verbs
be unequal; countervail; have the advantage, give the advantage; turn the scale; kick the beam; topple, topple over; overmatch; not come up to.
-adjectives
unequal, uneven, disparate, partial; unbalanced, overbalanced; top-heavy, lopsided, biased, skewed; disquiparant.
-adverbs
haud passibus aequis [Vergil].
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| Antonyms: | equality |
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