disparity
- lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference: a disparity in age; disparity in rank.
Origin of disparity
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Related Words for disparity
divergence, variation, gap, inequality, discrepancy, distinction, imbalance, diverseness, incongruity, divergency, disproportion, unevenness, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, otherness, dissemblance, imparityExamples from the Web for disparity
Contemporary Examples of disparity
Even in the medieval era this disparity made Christians uncomfortable.
Even Congress passed a law reducing the disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentences.
Why Isn’t Prison Justice on the Ballot This Tuesday?Inimai Chettiar, Abigail Finkelman
November 1, 2014
The disparity has left some dealers convinced that maps Smiley stole now hang on the walls of private collectors around the world.
And even if that was true, it wouldn't vindicate a disparity that plainly affected her and presumably other women at the paper.
The Hypocrisy Behind The New York Times’s Abrupt Decapitation of Jill AbramsonRobert Shrum
May 18, 2014
As the assemblies multiply and spread, the disparity between communities has thrown up a series of issues.
Historical Examples of disparity
They see the disparity of wealth and poverty, and their hearts are torn with anger and with pity.
The Eternal CityHall Caine
And the Eumenides there lying express pictorially this disparity.
Essays, Second SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
One main cause of this disparity is the smallness of the inns here.
Glances at EuropeHorace Greeley
But this disparity in their fortunes which had frightened him before now had no fears for him.
Trent's Trust and Other StoriesBret Harte
Taking no account of the Cherub, the disparity of force is sufficiently obvious.
Admiral FarragutA. T. Mahan
disparity
- inequality or difference, as in age, rank, wages, etc
- dissimilarity