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
Inequality
Inequality noun - Lack of equality.
Usage example: the growing inequality between rich and poor
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Male nipples rarely face such scrutiny (unless you want to satirize the sexual inequality of this trope by either gender-flipping it or censoring male nipples along with female nipples in the name of true gender equality).
Source: Censorship Tropes -
Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality: The game rests at the "Near-perfect equality" range, albeit a number of problematic issues.
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I shall sink into the divine shadow, in a dumb silence and an ineffable union, and in this sinking all equality and all inequality shall be lost, and in that abyss my spirit will lose itself, and will not know the equal or the unequal, or anything else: and all differences will be forgotten.
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