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means A state of unfairness, especially in how resources, opportunities, or treatment are distributed — distinct from mere inequality because it carries a judgment that the imbalance is wrong, not just unequal.

from From French 'inequité', rooted in Latin 'inaequitas' — the negating prefix 'in-' ('not') fused to 'aequitas' ('equity, fairness, evenness'), itself from 'aequus' ('equal, just, level'). So the word has carried the charge of 'unjustness' baked into its Latin bones from the start — it was never simply about things being unequal in size or number, but about things being unequal in a way that offends fairness.