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Differing vs Disparate - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between differing and disparate

is that differing is difference while disparate is any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.

As a verb differing

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective disparate is

composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.

differing

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • difference
  • * 1983 , Robert Bator, Signposts to criticism of children's literature
    • I knew nothing then of the great differings and philosophizings, the setting up and tearing down of fine lines technically and aesthetically between the two that had been going on among the devotees of each
  • * 2007 , Youru Wang, Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought
    • It is the differings and deferrings of language that produce meanings, truths and values

    disparate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
    • The board of the company was decidedly disparate – no two members from the same social or economic background.
  • Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs; also, less properly, utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common genus.
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    • Synonyms

    * (composed of distinct elements ): incongruous, mismatched, uncoordinated * (markedly different ): different, dissimilar, unalike

    References

    Related terms

    * dispair * disparately * disparateness * disparity

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.

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