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diversity

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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

there's 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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