noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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1
noun
Meaning 1
The political doctrine that holds that all people in a society should have equal rights from birth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: equalitarianism
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English egalitarian Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English egalitarianism From egalitarian + -ism.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Arabic:
مساواتية
— political doctrine of universal equality
Belarusian:
эгалітары́зм
(ehalitarýzm)
— political doctrine of universal equality
Bengali:
সমতাবাদ
(śomtabad)
— political doctrine of universal equality
Catalan:
igualitarisme
— political doctrine of universal equality
Chinese Mandarin:
平均主義 /平均主义
(píngjūnzhǔyì)
— political doctrine of universal equality
Chinese Mandarin:
平等主義 /平等主义
(píngděngzhǔyì)
— political doctrine of universal equality
Czech:
rovnostářství
— political doctrine of universal equality
Danish:
egalitarisme
— political doctrine of universal equality
Dutch:
egalitarisme
— political doctrine of universal equality
Finnish:
egalitarismi
— political doctrine of universal equality
Finnish:
pyrkimys tasa-arvoon
— political doctrine of universal equality
French:
égalitarisme
— political doctrine of universal equality
German:
Egalitarismus
— political doctrine of universal equality
Hungarian:
egalitarizmus
— political doctrine of universal equality
Icelandic:
jafnréttisstefna
— political doctrine of universal equality
Italian:
egualitarismo
— political doctrine of universal equality
Japanese:
平等主義
(byōtōshugi)
— political doctrine of universal equality
Kazakh:
теңгермешілдік
(teñgermeşıldık)
— political doctrine of universal equality
Korean:
평등주의
(pyeongdeungjuui)
— political doctrine of universal equality
Polish:
egalitaryzm
— political doctrine of universal equality
Portuguese:
igualitarismo
— political doctrine of universal equality
Russian:
эгалитари́зм
(egalitarízm)
— political doctrine of universal equality
Spanish:
igualitarismo
— political doctrine of universal equality
Swedish:
egalitarism
— political doctrine of universal equality
Turkish:
eşitlikçilik
— political doctrine of universal equality
Ukrainian:
егалітари́зм
(ehalitarýzm)
— political doctrine of universal equality
