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diversity

noun
/daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/

Etymology

From Middle English diversite, from Old French diversité, from Latin dīversitās, equivalent to diverse + -ity. Displaced native Old English mislīcnes.

  1. derived from diversité
  2. inherited from diversite

Definitions

  1. The quality of being diverse or different

    The quality of being diverse or different; a difference or unlikeness.

    • From this view of the case, my friends, I am driven irresistibly to the conclusion that diversity, dissimilarity, variety in all our local and domestic institutions, is the great safeguard of our liberties
    • In much she reminded me constantly of my own lost child; in other ways she attracted me by her diversity.
    • On December 17 I addressed the UN General Assembly, stating that it was this nation's policy to help create a world that "can be safe for diversity and free from hostility."

  2. A variety

    A variety; diverse types or examples.

    • The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.

  3. Equal-opportunity inclusion.

    • Diversity is now a big industry — about $8 billion per year gets spent on diversity trainings in America — and parents might be feeling blindsided by the rapid changes, many of which came after last year’s George Floyd protests.
    • One place there were none, of course, was on the Buckingham Palace balcony, as was observed by the Bridgerton actor Adjoa Andoh – who contrasted on the ITV coverage “the rich diversity of the abbey” and “a terribly white balcony”.

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Derived

agrodiversity, antidiversity, bibliodiversity, biodiversity, chemodiversity, cyberdiversity, dieversity, divershitty, diversicrat, diversity fatigue, diversity hire, diversity is perversity, diversity jurisdiction, diversity statement, ethnodiversity, evaluative diversity, genetic diversity, genodiversity, geodiversity, hyperdiversity, ichnodiversity, ichthyodiversity, linguistic diversity index, macrodiversity, megadiversity, microdiversity, moral diversity, multidiversity, mycodiversity, nondiversity, overdiversity, palaeodiversity, paleodiversity, pedodiversity, phylodiversity, phytodiversity, polydiversity, pyrodiversity, serodiversity, sexual diversity · +8 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at diversity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at diversity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at diversity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA