Disparity
[dɪ'spærɪtɪ] or [dɪ'spærəti]
Definition
(n.) Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Inequality, difference, disproportion.[2]. Dissimilitude, unlikeness.
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Definition
n. inequality: unlikeness so great as to render comparison difficult and union unsuitable.
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Examples
- We fought behind breastworks, which accounts in some degree for the disparity. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- O the sense of distance and disparity that came upon me, and the inaccessibility that came about her! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The disparity I have mentioned, therefore, almost ceases to be disparity, and (virtually) all but disappears. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But she was silent, pleased with the disparity, with her self-abasement. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is not for me to say whether there was any great disparity in such a match. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Do not think or speak of disparity between us, for there is none, except in all my many imperfections. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Then the question arises, Is this one disparity sufficient to operate as a bar to such a marriage? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Excepting inequality of fortune, and perhaps a little disparity of age, I can see nothing unsuitable. Jane Austen. Emma.
- There is some disparity in your respective years, but in your means and positions there is none; on the contrary, there is a great suitability. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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