egalitarianism

[ ih-gal-i-tair-ee-uh-niz-uhm ]

/ ɪˌgæl ɪˈtɛər i əˌnɪz əm /

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noun

belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, social, or economic life.

active promotion of this belief.

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Origin of egalitarianism

egalitarian + -ism

Words nearby egalitarianism

egad, Egadi Islands, egads button, egal, egalitarian, egalitarianism, égalité, Egas Moniz, Egbert, Eger, Egeria

How to use egalitarianism in a sentence

If we could tap that potential, and we could make egalitarianism essentially truly a self-perpetuating cultural unit that also preserves itself, then it’ll stay around.
The Math That Says Egalitarianism Is Possible - Issue 104: Harmony|Brian Gallagher|August 11, 2021|Nautilus
I brought up Bezos, and then asked Hooper to explain what, at bottom, fuels the possibility of egalitarianism in the first place, beginning with how he defines the term.
The Math That Says Egalitarianism Is Possible - Issue 104: Harmony|Brian Gallagher|August 11, 2021|Nautilus
Merely pointing to evolutionary influences behind a disposition toward egalitarianism, for example, doesn’t show that your reasons for judging gender discrimination to be wrong aren’t in fact good ones or that you lack knowledge of that wrongness.
Are We Cut Out for Universal Morality? - Issue 100: Outsiders|William J. FitzPatrick|May 26, 2021|Nautilus
To Brennan, the Constitution exemplified “the aspiration to social justice, brotherhood, and human dignity that brought this nation into being,” even if “this egalitarianism in America has been more pretension than realized fact.”
Xavier Becerra is the victim of the right’s distortion of Catholicism|Duncan Hosie|March 19, 2021|Washington Post

Trebek’s performance as host emphasized this egalitarianism.
Remembering Alex Trebek, The Man With All The Answers|Oliver Roeder|November 9, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
People were attracted to early Christianity by its compassionate egalitarianism.
Karen Armstrong’s New Rule: Religion Isn’t Responsible for Violence|Patricia Pearson|October 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
No one knows where it came from—just like the myth of Scottish egalitarianism.
Scotland’s ‘Yes’ Campaign and the Myth of Scottish Equality|Noah Caldwell|September 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For a mere generation, UK-wide public policy had matched the notion of Scottish egalitarianism, at least moderately.
Scotland’s ‘Yes’ Campaign and the Myth of Scottish Equality|Noah Caldwell|September 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And how has the Scottish myth of egalitarianism survived two and a half centuries of severe inequality?
Scotland’s ‘Yes’ Campaign and the Myth of Scottish Equality|Noah Caldwell|September 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But in America, born free of any aristocracy, the arrival of modernism and egalitarianism was a far more gentle affair.
Can We Divorce Our Elites?|James Poulos|April 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Fair Play settlers were eighteenth-century souls and romantic egalitarianism was not a characteristic of such persons.
The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784|George D. Wolf

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