Difference
Difference noun - The quality or state of being different.
Usage example: there's a great difference between claiming to care about the environment and living like you really do
Equality
Equality noun - The state or fact of being exactly the same in number, amount, status, or quality.
Usage example: it's absurd to suggest that there's an equality in the evil committed by the Nazis and the crimes of the government of that Asian country
How words are described
| true | true difference | true equality |
| relative | relative difference | relative equality |
| actual | actual difference | actual equality |
| real | real difference | real equality |
| Other adjectives: great, little, functional, fundamental, cultural, racial. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- The key difference being that "gay marriage" implies that they only want special privileges for homosexuals, whereas "marriage equality" stresses the belief that marriage is a universal right that should be extended to all people.
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She tried to convince the girls to stop helping men but her flawed logic is countered at the end by the more mainstream equality-based feminism of Sara Bellum and Miss Keane who teach the girls the difference between feminism and misandry.
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