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disparity

UK/dɪˈspæɹɪti//dɪˈspæɹɪti/

disparity noun: the state of being unequal; difference.

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
    • There was a disparity of view over the use of diesel or electric motive power for the route south of Crewe, and the Prime Minister even felt a modern design of steam locomotives would be the best solution.2020 April 8, David Clough, “How the West Coast wiring war was won”, in Rail, page 58
  2. (countable) Incongruity.

disparity meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

disparity in Hindi

the state of being unequal; difference
विषमता viṣamtā

disparity in Tamil

அமைதியான, உணர்ச்சி வயப்படாத, ஏற்றத்தாழ்வு, நடுநிலையான, வேற்றுமை

disparity in Urdu

بےجوڑ پن, فرق, اختلاف

disparity in Malayalam

discrepancy, inconsisten-cy, imbalance
അസമാനത, അസാദൃശ്യം, അങ്ങേയറ്റത്തെ വെെജാത്യം, ചേർച്ചക്കുറവ്, പൊരുത്തമില്ലായ്മ, പൂർവ്വാപരവിരുദ്ധത
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disparity in Kannada
ಎಣೆಗೆಡುಹ, ತೊಣೆಗೆಡುಹ, ಅಸಮತೆ, ಅಸಮಾನತೆ
disparity in Gujarati
વિષમતા
disparity in Nepali
विषमता
disparity in Persian
نابرابری nâ-barâbari

Examples of disparity in a sentence

  • The neoliberal, privatizing version of health in which everyone is responsible for themselves, despite disparities in resources.
  • That might explain the disparity in drink prices as bartenders added their own gratuity to the bill.
  • The images are preshifted, so that disparity is smaller than 1 pixel per camera displacement.

All 26 example sentences with disparity

Synonyms of disparity

Forms of disparity

pluraldisparities

Plural of disparity: disparities

Origin of disparity

From Middle French disparité, from Latin disparitātem, accusative of disparitās, from dispār + -tās, from dis- + pār. By surface analysis, dis- + parity.

Words formed from disparity

Questions about disparity

What does disparity mean?
Disparity means the state of being unequal; difference.
What is disparity in Hindi?
Disparity in Hindi is विषमता (viṣamtā). See Disparity meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is disparity?
Disparity is a noun.
How do you pronounce disparity?
Disparity is pronounced /dɪˈspæɹɪti/ (UK).
What is the plural of disparity?
The plural of disparity is disparities.

Words near disparity in the dictionary

  1. disparid
  2. disparids
  3. disparities
  4. disparition
  5. disparitions
  6. disparity
  7. dispark
  8. disparked
  9. disparking
  10. disparkle
  11. disparkled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: disparity (page history and authors); disparity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disparity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disparity (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); disparity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disparity (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); disparity (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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