Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Inequality; disparity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. inequality
- n. disparity
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Inequality; disparity; disproportion; difference of degree, rank, excellence, number, etc.
- n. Lack of comparison, correspondence, or suitableness; incongruity.
- n. Indivisibility into equal parts; oddness.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Want of parity, equivalence, or correspondence; inequality; disproportion; difference of degree, rank, excellence, amount, quantity, etc.; quantitative diversity.
- n. Numerical unevenness; indivisibility into two equal portions.
Etymologies
Examples
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All he can do is throw his hands up and curse his visual imparity.
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And until life abroad is valued equally with life at home, imparity over recognition of different genocides will not only continue, but genocide itself will.
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One of the most chilling comments to me came from Alan Greenspan today speaking in London suggesting this is just a painful process, but, nonetheless, a historical imparity.
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She hath turned away from God her Savior, and hath yielded her members servants to imparity and iniquity; she bath forgotten me, and gone after her lover, by whom she shall not profit.
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The arrangement, moreover, serves to accentuate unnecessarily the undeniable imparity of
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On the whole, this custom has about the same disadvantages and advantages which Warton points out as resulting from the four rhymes of a Spenserian stanza; -- the advantages, -- picturesqueness, ingenuity, discovery of new beauties: the disadvantages, -- art not concealed by art, tautology, imparity of similitudes, a caricature of typology, painful and affected elaboration.
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And observing that five was the antient conjugal or wedding number, he proceeds to a speculation which I shall give in his own words; “The antient numerists made out the conjugal number by two and three, the first parity and imparity, the active and passive digits, the material and formal principles in generative societies.”
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Sibyll, between us there are not imparity and obstacle.
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Also Friedan-related are the discussions about so-called intersectionality - how to address gender imparity at the same time that we consider racial, ethnic, sexual and class injustices.
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It is not imparity, but disparity, that divides the two magnificent theatres.
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