Noun

Singular diversity

Plural diversities

diversity (plural diversities)

1. The quality of being diverse or different; difference or variety.

Related terms

• diverse
• divert

Diversity

Diversity may refer to:

• Antenna diversity, a method of wireless communication that use two or more antennas to improve the quality and reliability of the link
• Diversity (business), the business tactic which encourages diversity to better serve a heterogeneous customer base
• Diversity (dance troupe), a British dance group, winners of the third series of Britain's Got Talent
• Diversity (politics), the political and social policy of encouraging tolerance for people of different backgrounds

• Diversity Index, a measure of biodiversity of an ecosystem
• Diversity jurisdiction, a concept under which U.S. federal courts can hear suits between parties from different states
• Diversity scheme, a method for improving the reliability of a message signal by using multiple communications channels
• Diversity training, the process of educating employees, students or volunteers to function in a diverse environment
• Ethnic diversity, or multiculturalism, the acceptance of multiple ethnic cultures

Diversity (politics) or multiculturalism or is the characteristic of people having identifiable differences in their backgrounds or lifestyles, often based on ethnicity and origin.

Sourced

• A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice.
  • Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize lecture (1976-12-12).

• A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. The extension in space of the number of individuals who participate in an interest so that each has to refer his own action to that of others, and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to the breaking down of those barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from realizing the full import of their activity. These more numerous and more varied points of contact denote a greater diversity of stimuli to which an individual has to respond; they consequently put a premium on variation in action. They secure a liberation of powers which remain suppressed as long as the incitations to action are partial, as they must be in a group which in its exclusiveness shuts out many interests.
  • John Dewey, Democracy and Education (1916), Chapter 7: The Democratic Ideal.

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