disparity

disparity

English

Etymology

From Middle French disparité.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈpæɹɪti/

Noun

disparity (countable and uncountable, plural disparities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being unequal; difference.
   • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], OCLC 633494058, chapter 12, page 301:

     With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.

2. (countable) Incongruity.

Synonyms

• unalikeness

Translations

the state of being unequal; difference

Bulgarian: разлика (bg) f (razlika), неравенство (bg) n (neravenstvo) Dutch: ongelijkheid (nl), onevenredigheid Finnish: eroavuus (fi), erilaisuus (fi) French: disparité (fr) f German: Differenz (de) f, Unterschiedlichkeit f, Unterschied (de) m, Disparität (de) f, Ungleichheit (de) f

Persian: نابرابری‎ (fa) (nâ-barâbari) Portuguese: disparidade (pt) Russian: нера́венство (ru) n (nerávenstvo), разли́чие (ru) n (razlíčije) Spanish: disparidad (es) Swedish: ojämlikhet (sv)

incongruity

Bulgarian: несъответствие (bg) n (nesǎotvetstvie), несъразмерност (bg) f (nesǎrazmernost) German: Unvereinbarkeit f, Ungleichheit (de) f

Russian: несоотве́тствие (ru) n (nesootvétstvije), несоразме́рность (ru) f (nesorazmérnostʹ)