Supporting equal rights, status, and opportunity for all people.
Reach for it when praising a principle or practice designed to reduce unjust hierarchy
The egalitarian workshop rotates leadership and publishes every pay band.
| playful | |
|---|---|
| everyday | |
| professional | |
| formal |
|
playful
everyone gets a fair shake
Fits when informal American phrasing suits the audience
Careful The idiom lacks precision about rights, resources, or structural equality.
everyday
Fits when sameness of status, rights, or amount is the exact fact
Careful Equal treatment can preserve unfair barriers when people begin from different positions.
everyday
Fits when participation across differences is the useful emphasis
Careful Inclusion can invite people into an institution without changing its hierarchy.
professional
Fits when shared participation and decision-making are central
Careful Democratic describes governance and can coexist with social or economic inequality.
professional
Fits when fairness requires attention to differing needs and obstacles
Careful Equitable does not necessarily reject hierarchy as an egalitarian principle does.
professional
leveling
Fits when a measure reduces a specific inequality
Careful Leveling can sound coercive and may imply reducing excellence rather than widening access.
formal
classless
Fits when absence of social class distinctions is specifically intended
Careful Classless is narrower and can make a sweeping claim unsupported by one practice.
egalitarian society
An egalitarian society remains an aspiration requiring concrete institutions.
egalitarian approach
The choir's egalitarian approach gives every section a featured passage.
egalitarian values
Egalitarian values shaped the cooperative's voting rules.
Definitions and examples are written for this site. How words are chosen Recording: EncycloPetey, American accent, from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Updated
Your browser isn't saving lists, so this one will be cleared when you leave the page.