equalitarianism

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English equalitarian

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English equalitarianism

From equalitarian + -ism.

Noun

equalitarianism (usually uncountable, plural equalitarianisms)

1. Egalitarianism.
   • 1962, "She Was Eleanor" (obituary of Eleanor Roosevelt), Time, 16 Nov.,

     All of her strivings and all of her little lectures and admonitions would add up to a U.S. in which all were equal. . . . She was until the day of her death the most effective advocate of welfare-state equalitarianism.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.