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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.