word | disparity |
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definition | A noticeable and often unfair difference between people or things. |
eg_sentence | He'd been noticing an increasing disparity between what the government was claiming and what he saw happening all around him. |
explanation | Disparity contains the Latin dis, meaning “apart” or “non-” (see DIS), so a disparity is a kind of “nonequality.” The word is often used to describe a social or economic condition that's considered unfairly unequal: a racial disparity in hiring, a health disparity between the rich and the poor, an income disparity between men and women, and so on. Its adjective, disparate (accented on the first syllable), is often used to emphasize strong differences |
IPA | dɪˈspɛrəti |
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