Other forms: inequities
Inequity is unfairness in how people are treated. Health inequity, address the inequity, glaring inequity.
It is not the same as inequality, and the difference matters: inequality is a gap and inequity is a gap that is unjust. Public health uses both deliberately and keeps them apart.
1nouninequityUnfairness in how people are treated.
“The report exposed the inequity of a health system in which the poor wait longest.”
inequity is an unfairness.
In-, not, plus equity, from Latin aequitas, fairness.
Latin
aequitās — uniformity; impartiality; fairness
Old French
equité
Middle English
equitee
English
equity
English, today
inequity
From in + equity. iniquity. equity comes from Middle English equitee, equytee, from Old French equité, from Latin aequitās (“uniformity; impartiality; fairness”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA