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DIVERSITY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does diversity mean?

• DIVERSITY (noun)
The noun DIVERSITY has 2 senses:

1. noticeable heterogeneity
2. the condition or result of being changed

Familiarity information: DIVERSITY used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DIVERSITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Noticeable heterogeneity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

diverseness; diversity; multifariousness; variety

Context examples:

a diversity of possibilities / the range and variety of his work is amazing

Hypernyms ("diversity" is a kind of...):

heterogeneity; heterogeneousness (the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind)

Attribute:

varied (characterized by variety)

unvaried; unvarying (lacking variety)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diversity"):

biodiversity (the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole))

Sense 2

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Meaning:

The condition or result of being changed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("diversity" is a kind of...):

variedness (characterized by variation)

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