egalitarianism

See also égalitarianism

English

Alternative forms

• égalitarianism

Etymology

egalitarian +‎ -ism

Noun

Wikipedia egalitarianism (uncountable)

1. 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. — Evan Thomas, Why It’s Time to Worry, Newsweek 2010-12-04

Related terms

• equalism

Synonyms

• equalitarianism

Translations

political doctrine of universal equality

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平均主義 (cmn), 平均主义 (cmn) (píngjūnzhǔyì), 平等主義 (cmn), 平等主义 (cmn) (píngděngzhǔyì)

• Czech: rovnostářství (cs) n
• Finnish: egalitarismi, pyrkimys tasa-arvoon
• French: égalitarisme (fr) m
• German: Egalitarismus (de) m

• Hungarian: egalitarizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: jafnréttisstefna (is) f
• Japanese: 平等主義 (ja) (びょうとうしゅぎ, byōtōshugi)
• Portuguese: igualitarismo (pt) m
• Russian: эгалитаризм (ru) (egalitarízm) m
• Swedish: egalitarism (sv) n

See also

• complementarianism
• socialism