Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The condition or fact of being unequal, as in age, rank, or degree; difference: "narrow the economic disparities among regions and industries” ( Courtenay Slater).
- n. Unlikeness; incongruity.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or character of being disparate. Inequality in degree, age, rank, condition, or excellence: as, disparity in or of years, age, circumstances, or condition.
- n. Dissimilitude; extreme unlikeness; specifically, a degree of unlikeness so great that it renders comparison impossible.
- n. One of two or more unlike things; a disparate.
- n. Synonyms Dissimilarity, etc. (see difference), disproportion.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable the state of being unequal; difference
- n. incongruity
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by
between ,in ,of ,as to , etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. inequality or difference in some respect
Etymologies
- From Middle French disparité. (Wiktionary)
- French disparité, from Old French desparite, from Late Latin disparitās : Latin dis-, dis- + Late Latin paritās, equality; see parity1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I'm guessing that the increase in disparity is more because the geezer bands can now charge hundreds of dollars per ticket to boomers reliving their past glory than a shift in attendance patterns.”
Aging Rockers vs. the Long Tail, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“When you compare the two lists of groups -- which you can see after the jump -- the disparity is almost comical.”
“Updated 10: 48: Sen. Cornyn just asked Judge Sotomayor a pointed question about what he calls a disparity between what she has said in speeches and how she has characterized those speeches.”
Doug Kendall: Liveblogging the Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing (Day 4)
“Business South Africa is to petition the Constitutional Court on what it describes as a disparity in collective bargaining rights for employers and employees in the final constitution adopted on”
“Either pull the lowest schools up to that level or have the two meet somewhere in the middle, but this disparity is just going to keep breeding bad results.”
“At this point, when US income disparity is high, a tax on the wealthy would allow to balance our federal budget in relatively short order. howard says:”
Matthew Yglesias » Harold Ford Calls for Immediate Tax Cuts, Immediate Deficit Reduction
“To some degree, this disparity is created by the market & any policy proposal should recognize that.”
Fogel Vs. Wonks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“What was a 100 to 1 disparity is now "only" an 18 to 1 disparity.”
“Posted at 10: 51 AM in disparity, sadly, it's news, stereotypes | Permalink”
“In fact, the only space that could hold such disparity is the realm of fiction itself, an infinitely elastic space where anything is possible.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘disparity’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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big book gre
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Vocab_TC60Q_txtbook
most vocab in the textbook Page till end chapter 2.
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Favorites
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maygra
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National Library Agenda Summit
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Evolution
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special
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The New Yorker
prejudice, ignominious, quintessence, disparity, vanguard, repudiated, eclectic, dredge, taxonomy, pugnacious, surreptitiously, pudgy and 113 more...
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Favorites
machiavellian, mercurial, deus ex machina, synecdoche, litotes, phallic, freudian, metonymy, chrestomathy, falsifiable, gestalt, truthiness and 211 more...
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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Vocab from High School
Words that I found in an old notebook.
affinity, aggrandizement, altruistic, ameliorate, apochryphal, aversion, blithe, bombastic, cajole, callous, capitulate, capricious and 178 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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Tolland's list
Those I've come across and try to keep fresh within my mind.
clandestine, dysphoric, indictive, vigil, fractious, assiduous, indefatigable, ubiquitous, insidious, paroicous, aplomb, sangfroid and 654 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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