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diversity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of diversity

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

  • the diversity of plant life on that tropical island is staggering
Synonyms of diversity

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

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

homogeneity, homogeneousness, likeness, sameness, similarity

fewness, paucity

2 the quality or state of being different

  • thereʼs considerable diversity in the platforms for the two major parties
Synonyms of diversity

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

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 diversity

identicalness, identity

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

equality, equivalence, equivalency

homogeneity, homogeneousness, uniformity
Antonyms of diversity

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

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