diversity

English

Etymology

From Middle English diversite, from Old French diversité, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dīversitās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/, /dɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/

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Noun

diversity (countable and uncountable, plural diversities)

1. The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.
2. A variety; diverse types or examples.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• (quality of being diverse or different): See also Thesaurus:nonuniformity
• (diverse types or examples): selection

Related terms

• diverse
• divert
• divers

Translations

quality of being diverse; difference

• Arabic: تَنَوُّع m (tanawwuʕ), تَعَدُّدِيَّة f (taʕaddudiyya)
• Azerbaijani: müxtəliflik
• Bulgarian: разнообразие (bg) n (raznoobrazie)
• Catalan: diversitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多樣性／多样性 (zh) (duōyàngxìng), 多样性 (zh) (duōyàngxìng), 變化／变化 (zh) (biànhuà), 变化 (zh) (biànhuà)

• Czech: rozmanitost f, rozdílnost f, diversita f
• Danish: diversitet, mangfoldighed c
• Dutch: verscheidenheid (nl)
• Esperanto: diverseco
• Finnish: monimuotoisuus (fi)
• French: diversité (fr) f
• Galician: diversidade (gl) f
• Georgian: მრავალფეროვნება (mravalperovneba), სახესხვაობა (saxesxvaoba)
• German: Vielfältigkeit (de) f, Mannigfaltigkeit (de) f, Vielfalt (de) f, Diversität (de) f, Unterschiedlichkeit f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ποικιλία f (poikilía)

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• Hebrew: מגוון m (migvan)
• Hungarian: különféleség, sokféleség (hu), változatosság (hu)
• Icelandic: fjölbreytni
• Irish: éagsúlacht f
• Italian: diversità (it) f
• Japanese: 多様性 (ja) (たようせい, tayōsei), 変化 (ja) (へんか, henka)
• Maltese: diversità f
• Polish: różnorodność (pl) f
• Portuguese: diversidade (pt) f
• Quechua: ñawra
• Russian: разнообра́зие (ru) n (raznoobrázije)
• Serbo-Croatian: raznòlikōst (sh) f, diverzìtēt m, heterogenost (sh) f
• Spanish: diversidad (es) f
• Swedish: mångfald (sv)
• Tagalog: balaki, kabalakihan, kayamuan
• Telugu: భిన్నత్వం (te) (bhinnatvaṁ)
• Thai: ความหลากหลาย (kwaam-làak-lǎai)