Antonyms for diversity
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dih-vur-si-tee, dahy- |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈvɜr sɪ ti, daɪ- |
Definition of diversity
Origin :- mid-14c., "quality of being diverse," mostly in a neutral sense, from Old French diversité (12c.) "difference, diversity, unique feature, oddness:" also "wickedness, perversity," from Latin diversitatem (nominative diversitas) "contrariety, contradiction, disagreement;" also, as a secondary sense, "difference, diversity," from diversus "turned different ways" (in Late Latin "various"), past participle of divertere (see divert).
- Negative meaning, "being contrary to what is agreeable or right; perversity, evil" existed in English from late 15c. but was obsolete from 17c. Diversity as a virtue in a nation is an idea from the rise of modern democracies in the 1790s, where it kept one faction from arrogating all power (but this was not quite the modern sense, as ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, etc. were not the qualities in mind):
- The dissimilarity in the ingredients which will compose the national government, and still more in the manner in which they will be brought into action in its various branches, must form a powerful obstacle to a concert of views in any partial scheme of elections. There is sufficient diversity in the state of property, in the genius, manners, and habits of the people of the different parts of the Union, to occasion a material diversity of disposition in their representatives towards the different ranks and conditions in society. ["Federalist" #60, Feb. 26, 1788 (Hamilton)]
- Specific focus (in a positive sense) on race, gender, etc. is from 1992.
- noun variety, difference
- There was, he contended, some diversion and diversity in card-playing.
- Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson
- In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
- Extract from : « The Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone » by John Filson
- Diversity is the law of life, as equality, or versimilitude, is that of death.
- Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright
- The ensuing survey does not pretend to cover the field in all its diversity.
- Extract from : « The Fabric of Civilization » by Anonymous
- The diversity of the sutures was caused by the struggle of the food against the courses of the soul.
- Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato
- Books of multiple authorship often possess too wide a diversity of viewpoints.
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- Between these extremes there is every diversity of opinion and procedure that can be conceived.
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- Middle age is the period of most diversity, when individuality is most pronounced.
- Extract from : « The Old Folks' Party » by Edward Bellamy
- But is not this the natural result of the diversity of our feminine souls?
- Extract from : « The Choice of Life » by Georgette Leblanc
- He is not disturbed by the diversity of methods exhibited in the Paraphrase.
- Extract from : « Early Theories of Translation » by Flora Ross Amos
Synonyms for diversity
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