Diverse vs Variety - What's the difference?
diverse | variety |
Consisting of many different elements; various.
Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.
* J. Edwards
* R. Browning
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* Ben Jonson
The quality of being varied; diversity.
A specific variation of something.
A number of different things.
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, title= A state of constant change.
(taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification, below species and subspecies.
(cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system.
(cybernetics) Logarithm of the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
(linguistics) A term used for a specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is a dialect, accent, register, etc. and to its prestige level.
The class of all algebraic structures of a given signature satisfying a given set of identities.
As an adjective diverse
is consisting of many different elements; various.As an adverb diverse
is in different directions; diversely.As a noun variety is
the quality of being varied; diversity.diverse
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Alternative forms
* divers (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The word is used in a sense very diverse from its original import.
- Our roads are diverse : farewell, love! said she.
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Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
- Eloquence is a great and diverse thing.
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Alternative forms
* (rare)Noun
(varieties)Ecological Dependency, passage=In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.}}