plural disparities
Definition of disparity
: a noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity
economic/income disparities The fact is that America's colleges … have lately been exacerbating more than ameliorating the widening disparity of wealth and opportunity in American society.— Andrew Delbanco … in no other composer is the disparity between the man and his work so immense. Bach's life is considered stupefyingly ordinary, but his music is divine …— Edward Rothstein
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The first known use of disparity was in 1571
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