Company: ETY
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: N-2ASR
Source: 0001193125-25-026876
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Company: Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: N-2ASR
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 14, 2025 1933 Act File No. 333- 1940 Act File No. 811-21832 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 FORM N-2 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER

| THE SECURITIES ACT of 1933   |     | ☒ |
| PRE-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO.  |     | ☐ |
| POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. |     | ☐ |

and/or REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER

| THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 |     | ☐ |
| AMENDMENT NO.10                    |     | ☒ |

EATON VANCE TAX-MANAGEDDIVERSIFIED EQUITY INCOME FUND (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter) One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109 (Address of Principal Executive Offices) ( 617) 482-8260 (Registrant’s Telephone Number) Deidre E. Walsh One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109 (Name and Address of Agent for Service) Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering: From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

| ☐ | Check box if the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans. |

| ☑ | Check box if any securities being registered on this Form will be offered on a delayed or continuous basis in reliance on Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933 (“Securities Act”), other than securities offered in connection with a dividend reinvestment plan. |

| ☑ | Check box if this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction A.2 or a post-effective amendment thereto. |

| ☑ | Check box if this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction B or a post-effective amendment thereto that will become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act. |

| ☐ | Check box if this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction B to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act. |

It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):

| ☐ | when declared effective pursuant to section 8(c) |

If appropriate, check the following box:

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