multiplicity
a large number or variety: a multiplicity of errors.
the state of being multiplex or manifold; manifold variety.
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Last year the Unicode Consortium—the group responsible for the selection and design of emoji—released a new series that reflected the multiplicity of gender identities.
Meet the designer behind gender-neutral emoji | Tanya Basu | August 23, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewOne person writing about their experience doesn’t take away from all the multiplicity of the other narratives and feelings.
I Witnessed a Fatal Bike Crash. It Changed Me Forever. | lwhelan | December 13, 2021 | Outside OnlineThe multiplicity, therefore, becomes essential, as the poems are rarely frozen in a single feeling.
Poet Yu Xiuhua became a viral sensation. Her first book-length collection in English deserves to bring her an even bigger audience. | Chris Littlewood | September 29, 2021 | Washington PostTo be an astrobiologist means becoming acutely aware of the living world and our place within its multiplicity of layers and branches.
Indeed, the multiplicity of actors in this informational struggle, state or not, makes such a designation difficult.
People affiliated with French military used Facebook to meddle in Africa | Craig Timberg, Elizabeth Dwoskin | December 16, 2020 | Washington Post
A cynic might say that the report is like the movie Clue, perfectly set up for a multiplicity of endings.
I try to create a multiplicity of experiences within the works so that I can hit the viewer on a variety of levels.
Historically the contradictory pressures exerted by the multiplicity of parties has not been good for Israel.
They vote on a multiplicity of concerns, of which Israel is a part, but hardly, for most of them, the determining factor.
From this multiplicity of voices Williams constructs a beautifully harmonious and satisfyingly substantial whole.
Must Read Novels | Lucy Scholes, John Wilwol, Randy Rosenthal, Nina MacLaughlin | August 4, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThe problem is a highly complicated one, and no doubt many causes have to do with the multiplicity of effects.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisWhen for the first time Intelligence contemplated the Good, this its contemplation split the Good's unity into multiplicity.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)The multiplicity of the intelligences implies therefore a difference between them.107 But how does each differ from the others?
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)But (in the Divinity) (these three, choice, being and will) do not form a multiplicity; they must be considered as having fused.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)If we are to study the world from the standpoint of forms, our study will be almost endless in its multiplicity.
Evolution of Life and Form | Annie Wood Besant
British Dictionary definitions for multiplicity
/ (ˌmʌltɪˈplɪsɪtɪ) /
a large number or great variety
the state of being multiple
physics
the number of levels into which the energy of an atom, molecule, or nucleus splits as a result of coupling between orbital angular momentum and spin angular momentum
the number of elementary particles in a multiplet
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