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diverseness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of diverseness

1 the quality or state of being composed of many different elements or types

  • the diverseness of the offerings at the art fair made judging a challenge
Synonyms of diverseness

assortment, diversity, heterogeneity, heterogeneousness, manifoldness, miscellaneousness, multifariousness, multiplicity, variety, variousness
Words Related to diverseness

disparateness, disparity, dissimilarity, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, otherness, unlikeness
Near Antonyms of diverseness

homogeneity, homogeneousness, likeness, sameness, similarity

fewness, paucity

2 the quality or state of being different

  • the diverseness of the two top movies in the running for Best Picture could not be more striking
Synonyms of diverseness

contrast, difference, disagreement, discrepancy, disparateness, disparity, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distance, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, diversity, otherness, unlikeness
Words Related to diverseness

deviance, divergence

differentiability, discriminability, distinguishability

change, modification, variation

conflict, discord, discordance, dissension (also dissention), dissent, dissidence, disunity, friction, strife

variability, variance

anomalousness, dichotomy, incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness, nonconformity

disproportion, imbalance, inequality, nonequivalence
Near Antonyms of diverseness

identicalness, identity

accordance, agreement, conformity, congruity, correspondence, parallelism, similitude

equality, equivalence, equivalency

homogeneity, homogeneousness, uniformity
Antonyms of diverseness

alikeness, analogousness, analogy, community, likeness, resemblance, sameness, similarity

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