diversity
English
Etymology
From Middle English diversite, from Old French diversité, from Latin dīversitās.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/, /dɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/
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Noun
diversity (countable and uncountable, plural diversities)
- The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonuniformity
- A variety; diverse types or examples.
- Synonym: selection
- 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
- 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.
- (chiefly business) Equal-opportunity inclusion.
- 2003, Adalberto Aguirre, Racial and Ethnic Diversity in America: A Reference Handbook (page 72)
- Bakke has shaped a precarious context for diversity initiatives in higher education. On the one hand, the U.S. Supreme Court has reasoned that race may serve a purpose in the admissions process; however, race may not be used as a corrective measure, such as by establishing quotas.
- 2021 November 11, Jay Caspian Kang, “Can We Talk About Critical Race Theory?”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- 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.
- 2003, Adalberto Aguirre, Racial and Ethnic Diversity in America: A Reference Handbook (page 72)
Derived terms
- antidiversity
- dieversity
- diversity fatigue
- diversity is perversity
- diversity jurisdiction
- evaluative diversity
- genetic diversity
- moral diversity
Related terms
- diverse
- divert
- divers
Translations
quality of being diverse; difference
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