levellers

Those who flatten

Levellers are people or things that make surfaces flat and even, or more broadly, anything that reduces differences or inequalities.

A bulldozer is a leveller of terrain; death is sometimes called the great leveller because it comes for everyone regardless of status.

The pandemic was a leveller—executives and janitors both worked from home. (Capitalized Levellers were a 17th-century English political movement.)

equality

egalitarianism

Philosophy of universal equality

  • fairnessJust and equal treatment
  • parityState of being equal
  • equityImpartial treatment or ownership value

justice · impartiality · equal rights · social equality · uniformity · equivalence · balance · non-discrimination · evenness · classless

tools

grader

One who assigns scores

planer · trowel · float · screeding · earthmoving · compactor · blade · surveying · finishing

Categories
Opposites
social hierarchy stance

levellersroyalists

Supporters of hereditary rule

monarchists · aristocrats · absolutists · elitists · Tories

physical action on surfaces

levellersraisers

Those who elevate

elevators · builders · erecters · constructors

equalization of differences

levellerselitists

Those claiming superiority

differentiators · discriminators · dividers · segregators · rankers

Phrases
Family

levelled, leveller

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