Word Meanings - DIVERSITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness. They will prove opposite; and not resting in a bare diversity, rise into a contrariety. South. 2. Multiplicity of difference; multiformity; variety. "Diversity of sounds." Shak. "Diversities

Additional info about word: DIVERSITY

1. A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness. They will prove opposite; and not resting in a bare diversity, rise into a contrariety. South. 2. Multiplicity of difference; multiformity; variety. "Diversity of sounds." Shak. "Diversities of opinion." Secker. 3. Variegation. "Bright diversities of day." Pope. Syn. -- See Variety.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIVERSITY)

• Medley
• Jumble
• tumult
• confusion
• mixture
• hodge-podge
• litter
• diversity
• miscellany
• Miscellany
• Mixture
• Intermixture
• jumble
• medley
• variety
• Schism
• Division
• separation
• disruption
• secession
• sectarianism
• breach
• dissent
• discord
• Variation
• Deviation
• alteration
• mutation
• departure
• change
• abnormity
• exception
• discrepancy
• Variety
• Difference
• multiplicity
• multiformity

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIVERSITY)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold

Related words: (words related to DIVERSITY)

• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• DISCORDABLE
  That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. Halliwell.
• VARIATION
  Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc. (more info) 1. The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation;
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• MUTATION
  Change; alteration, either in form or qualities. The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument. Bacon.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• DISCORD
  Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• ALTERATION
  1. The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker. 2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive
• STANDPIPE
  A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
• ENDUREMENT
  Endurance. South.
• CHANGEABLY
  In a changeable manner.
• DISSENTIVE
  Disagreeing; inconsistent. Feltham.
• EXCEPTIONAL
  Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv.
• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• TRANSMUTATIONIST
  One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• INTERMUTATION
  Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• FLITTERMOUSE
  A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• COUNTERCHANGED
  Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
• COUNTERCHANGE
  1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.