Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being unequal; inequality.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness.

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  • noun The state or condition of being unequal; inequality.

Etymologies

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unequal +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Nevertheless, the unequalness of the ground would not permit a widely extended front to be so exactly drawn up as to have their shields everywhere joined; and Aemilius perceived that there were a great many interstices and breaches in the Macedonian phalanx; as it usually happens in all great armies, according to the different efforts of the combatants, who in one part press forward with eagerness, and in another are forced to fall back.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • The more I know of horses, the more natural I think men and women are in the unequalness of their marriages.

    The Love Affairs of an Old Maid Lilian Bell

  • But this personal unequalness will no longer mean a difference of economic power or inequality of material rights or privileges.

    Venezuela Analysis Hugo Chávez Frías 2009

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