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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Disparity \Dis*par"i*ty\, n.; pl {Disparities}. [LL.
disparitas fr L. dispar unlike, unequal; dis- + par equal:
cf F. disparit['e]. See {Par}, {Peer}.]
Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or
excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in of as
to etc.; as disparity in or of years; a disparity as to
color.
The disparity between God and his intelligent
creatures. --I. Taylor.
The disparity of numbers was not such as ought to cause
any uneasiness. --Macaulay.
Syn: Inequality; unlikeness; dissimilitude; disproportion;
difference.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
disparity
n : inequality or difference in some respect
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