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Variety vs Diversity - What's the difference?

variety | diversity |

As nouns the difference between variety and diversity

is that variety is the quality of being varied; diversity while diversity is the quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.

variety

English

Alternative forms

* (rare)

Noun

(varieties)
  • The quality of being varied; diversity.
  • A specific variation of something.
  • A number of different things.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01, author=Katie L. Burke, volume=101, issue=1, page=64, magazine=(American Scientist)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * equational variety

    Hyponyms

    * cultivar

    Derived terms

    * Abelian variety * antivariety * grape variety * variety store * variety show * algebraic variety * affine variety * projective variety * quasiprojective variety * quasivariety

    Related terms

    * variant * variation * varietal * variegate * various * vary

    See also

    * species * information entropy

    External links

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    diversity

    English

    Noun

    (diversities)
  • The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.
  • * c''1386 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), ''(w, The Man of Law's Tale) , 87:
    • Ther was swich diversitee Bitwene hir bothe lawes.
  • A variety; diverse types or examples.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author= Nick Miroff
    • , volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] , passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity .}}

    Related terms

    * diverse * divert * divers