Egalitarianism is a concept that refers to the belief in the fundamental equality of all people, regardless of their gender, race, religion, or social status. While it is an admirable ideal, there are some words that express the opposite meaning. Some antonyms of egalitarianism include elitism, snobbery, exclusivity, hierarchy, and dominance. Elitism is a belief that some people are superior to others based on their wealth, education, or social status. Snobbery denotes a disdainful attitude towards those who are considered inferior. Exclusivity means the restriction of privileges to a privileged group. Hierarchy refers to a social order in which people are placed in different levels of importance or authority, and dominance is the act of asserting power over others.

What are the antonyms for Egalitarianism?

• n.

  • democracy
  • unfairness
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Usage examples for Egalitarianism

Famous quotes with Egalitarianism

• Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

  Mario Vargas Llosa
• As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

  B. Carroll Reece
• The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

  Camille Paglia
• In the American view, there is nothing vile or degraded about serving your customers either as a CEO or as a waiter. The ordinary life of production and supporting a family is more highly valued in the United States than in any other country. America is the only country in the world where we call the waiter 'sir', as if he were a knight. America has achieved greater social equality than any other society. True, there are large inequalities of income and wealth in America. In purely economic terms, Europe is more egalitarian. But Americans are socially more equal than any other people, and this is unaffected by economic disparities. Alexis de Tocqueville noticed this egalitarianism a century and a half ago and it is, if anything, more prevalent today. For all his riches, Bill Gates could not approach the typical American and say, 'Here's a $100 bill. I'll give it to you if you kiss my feet'. Most likely, the person would tell Gates to go to hell! The American view is that the rich guy may have more money, but he isn't in any fundamental sense better than anyone else.

  Dinesh D'Souza
• John C. Calhoun was the philosopher-king of the old south, the spiritual mentor of Stephens, Davis, and most of the political leaders of the Confederacy. Bradford and McClellan, following Willmoore Kendall, are obsessed with the utterly false notion that Lincoln was somehow responsible for the permissive egalitarianism of the contemporary welfare state. But equality as such was no less important to Calhoun than to Lincoln. It was just a different kind of equality.

  Harry V. Jaffa

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