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DISPARITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inequality or difference in some respect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("disparity" is a kind of...):
inequality (lack of equality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disparity"):
far cry (a disappointing disparity)
gap; spread (a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures)
disconnect; disconnection; gulf (an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding))
disproportion (lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something)
Derivation:
disparate (including markedly dissimilar elements)
disparate (fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind)
Context examples:
Not only was the disparity between the indirect measure and their 'direct' on as wide as 44-fold, the higher the level of BPA, the greater the gulf between their measure and the one used by the FDA was.
(Humans exposed to far more hormone-disrupting chemicals than thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Modeling provides an opportunity to better understand the sources of health disparities in cancer mortality, extrapolate results of randomized clinical trials to groups that carry the heaviest burden of disease and have sometimes been underrepresented in trials, and provides strategies for cancer control interventions to reduce cancer-related health disparities.
(Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network, NCI Thesaurus)
“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Many different populations are affected by disparities.
(Health Disparities, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
Excepting inequality of fortune, and perhaps a little disparity of age, I can see nothing unsuitable.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose”—“no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He is your superior, no doubt, and there do seem objections and obstacles of a very serious nature; but yet, Harriet, more wonderful things have taken place, there have been matches of greater disparity.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But you know they were your own words, that more wonderful things had happened, matches of greater disparity had taken place than between Mr. Frank Churchill and me; and, therefore, it seems as if such a thing even as this, may have occurred before—and if I should be so fortunate, beyond expression, as to—if Mr. Knightley should really—if he does not mind the disparity, I hope, dear Miss Woodhouse, you will not set yourself against it, and try to put difficulties in the way.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Do not think or speak of disparity between us, for there is none, except in all my many imperfections.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
