# diversity
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English diversite, from Old French diversité, from Latin dīversitās. Displaced native Old English mislīcnes.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/, /dɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Noun

diversity (countable and uncountable, plural diversities)
* The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonuniformity
** 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “"I feel like I have already been here a year"”, in The Vantage Point‎, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 23:On December 17 I addressed the UN General Assembly, stating that it was this nation's policy to help create a world that "can be safe for diversity and free from hostility."
** 2023 May 7, Caroline Davies, Emily Dugan, quoting Adjoa Andoh, “Coronation aimed for diversity but real challenges still lie ahead”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:One place there were none, of course, was on the Buckingham Palace balcony, as was observed by the Bridgerton actor Adjoa Andoh – who contrasted on the ITV coverage “the rich diversity of the abbey” and “a terribly white balcony”.
* A variety; diverse types or examples.
    Synonym: selection
** 1983 August 6, Rob Schmieder, “Disco Consumers And Rock Activists”, in Gay Community News, page 15:Hendryx has laid down eight tracks that flow seamlessly through funk, disco, gospel, rock and reggae, with nary a false step along the way. She is at home in this diversity of styles because she has paid her dues in all of them: from her days as one of the dynamoes of Labelle through collaborations with rock band Talking Heads, funk band Cameo […]
** 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: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.

#### Derived terms

* agrodiversity
* antidiversity
* bibliodiversity
* biodiversity
* chemodiversity
* cyberdiversity
* dieversity
* divershitty
* diversicrat
* diversity fatigue
* diversity hire
* diversity is perversity
* diversity jurisdiction
* diversity statement
* ethnodiversity
* evaluative diversity
* genetic diversity
* genodiversity
* geodiversity
* hyperdiversity
* ichnodiversity
* ichthyodiversity
* linguistic diversity index
* macrodiversity
* megadiversity
* microdiversity
* moral diversity
* multidiversity
* mycodiversity
* nondiversity
* overdiversity
* palaeodiversity
* paleodiversity
* pedodiversity
* phylodiversity
* phytodiversity
* polydiversity
* pyrodiversity
* serodiversity
* sexual diversity
* sociodiversity
* superdiversity
* technodiversity
* theodiversity
* time diversity
* topodiversity
* virodiversity
* xenodiversity

#### Related terms

* diverse
* divert
* divers

#### See also

* inclusivity