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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISPARITY, n. [L.]
1. Irregularity; difference in degree, in age, rank, condition or excellence; as a disparity of year or of age; disparity of condition or circumstances; followed by of or in. We say, disparity in or of years.
2. Dissimilitude; unlikeness.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: inequality or difference in some respect

Merriam Webster's

noun see disparate

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 inequality; difference; incongruity. 2 an instance of this. Etymology: F disparité f. LL disparitas -tatis (as DIS-, PARITY(1))

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(disparities) If there is a disparity between two or more things, there is a noticeable difference between them. (FORMAL) ...the economic disparities between East and West Berlin. = difference N-VAR: oft N between/in pl-n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Inequality, difference, disproportion. 2. Dissimilitude, unlikeness.

Moby Thesaurus

agreement to disagree, alienation, antagonism, apostasy, argumentation, asymmetry, bad copy, bad likeness, camouflage, clashing, conflict, contradiction, contrariety, contrast, controversy, counter-culture, cross-purposes, departure, deviation, difference, difference of opinion, difficulty, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, disequilibrium, disguise, disharmony, disproportion, dissatisfaction, dissemblance, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissimilation, dissimilitude, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, disunion, disunity, divergence, divergency, diversity, dividedness, division, dropping out, faction, far cry, gap, heterogeneity, imbalance, imparity, inaccordance, inadequacy, incommensurability, incomparability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inequity, inharmoniousness, inharmony, injustice, insufficiency, irreconcilability, irregularity, jarring, makeup, mere caricature, minority opinion, misunderstanding, mixture, negation, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, nonuniformity, odds, opposition, oppugnancy, otherness, overbalance, polarization, poor imitation, recusance, recusancy, rejection, repudiation, repugnance, secession, separateness, shortcoming, unbalance, unconformity, underground, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unresemblance, unsameness, unsimilarity, variance, variation, variegation, variety, withdrawal