DISPARITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disparity mean? • DISPARITY (noun)
The noun DISPARITY has 1 sense:
1. inequality or difference in some respect
Familiarity information: DISPARITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DISPARITY (noun)
Meaning:
Inequality or difference in some respect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("disparity" is a kind of...):
inequality (lack of equality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disparity"):
far cry (a disappointing disparity)
gap; spread (a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures)
disconnect; disconnection; gulf (an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding))
disproportion (lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something)
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