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disparities

disparities is the plural of disparity.

Meaning of disparity

Noun

disparity (countable and uncountable, plural disparities)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being unequal; difference.
    • With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt...1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 12.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 301
  2. (countable) Incongruity.

Questions about disparities

What is disparities the plural of?
Disparities is the plural of disparity.

Words near disparities in the dictionary

  1. disparency
  2. disparent
  3. disparented
  4. disparid
  5. disparids
  6. disparities
  7. disparition
  8. disparitions
  9. disparity
  10. dispark
  11. disparked

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