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Definition of Diversity

1. Noun. Noticeable heterogeneity. "The range and variety of his work is amazing"

Definition of Diversity

1. n. A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness.

Definition of Diversity

1. Noun. The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness. ¹

2. Noun. A variety; divers types or examples. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Diversity

1. [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Diversity

1. The number and variety of species present in an area and their spatial distribution. (09 Oct 1997)

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Literary usage of Diversity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1879)
"Unity in diversity and diversity in unity, is a law of nature as well as of the Church. ... Divine unity has its rights, so also has human diversity. ..."

2. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1849)
"OF IDENTITY AND diversity. 1. Wherein identity consists.—Another occasion the mind often takes of comparing, is, the very being of things, when, ..."

3. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"It will be noticed that the tendency up to this diversity of point has been towards ... The diversity of Elizabethan drama at its height is nowhere better ..."

4. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1913)
"Complete diversity occurs only with certain limited kinds of service; partial diversity occurs on every kind of service. The amount of partial diversity ..."

5. Central-station Electric Service: Its Commercial Development and Economic by Samuel Insull (1915)
"The maximum demand of the street-railway business shows separately a diversity of a little over 20 per cent. The maximum demand of the various departments ..."

6. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1882)
"... isolation, number of individuals—Slow action— Extinction caused by Natural Selection—Divergence of Character, related to the diversity of inhabitants of ..."

7. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"... 1879 — diversity of Opinion as to the Meaning of Resumption— Effect of the Act to Advance Public Credit — Funding Redeemable Bonds Into Four per Cents. ..."

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