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/dɪvˈərsəti/ /dɪvˈərsɪti/ /daɪvˈərsəti/ /daɪvˈərsɪti/ Listen

noun

Diversity n. (pl. diversities)

A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness. "They will prove opposite; and not resting in a bare diversity, rise into a contrariety."

Multiplicity of difference; multiformity; variety. "Diversity of sounds." "Diversities of opinion."

Variegation. "Bright diversities of day."

Synonyms: See Variety.

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Etymology of 'Diversity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... ones to be reviewed. The intellectual and social characters of numerous races belong to the category of physiological or functional phenomena, which are to receive due consideration at a later time. It is the meaning of the facts of racial diversity for which we are now ...

— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton

... directed his steps one evening to the sacred mount, which overlooks the beautiful valley watered by the Darro, the fertile plain of the Vega, and all that rich diversity of vale and mountain that surrounds Granada with an earthly paradise. It was twilight when he found himself at the place, where, at the present day, are situated the chapels, known by the name of the Sacred Furnaces. They are so called from grottoes, in ...

— Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists • Washington Irving

... other; yet the image of Frederick, his name and glory, soon hovered again above all. The enthusiasm of his worshippers grew always stronger and more animated; the hatred of his enemies more bitter; and the diversity of opinion, which separated even families, contributed not a little to isolate citizens, already sundered in many ways and on other grounds. For in a city like Frankfort, where three religions divide the inhabitants into three unequal ...

— Autobiography • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

... gastronomic possibilities interfere with the appreciation of color, and form, and situation! But again, to come to the Arboretum some time during the reign of the lilacs is to experience an even greater pleasure, perhaps, for here the old farm garden "laylock" assumes a wonderful diversity of form and color, from the palest wands of the Persian sorts to the deepest blue of some ...

— Getting Acquainted with the Trees • J. Horace McFarland

... its general reference altogether, to lapse towards some department of activity not primarily sociological at all. Examples of this are the works of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb, M. Ostrogorski and M. Gustave le Bon. From a contemplation of all this diversity Professor Durkheim emerges, demanding a "synthetic science," "certain synthetic conceptions"—and Professor Karl Pearson endorses the demand—to fuse all these various activities into something that will live and grow. What is it that tangles this question so curiously that ...

— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells

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