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equalism

equalism

English

Noun

equalism (uncountable)

  1. Any of several forms of egalitarianism (advocacy of equality) concerned with establishing sexual, racial, class or other equality.
  2. The policy or practice of treating all things equally.
    • 2001, Norman J. Finkel, COMMONSENSE JUSTICE (ISBN 0674005562), page 335:
      Yet in repeated experiments, subjects have cast aside equalism in favor of proportional treatment of defendants.