Dictionary entry

Disparity

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis‐par″i‐ty (?), n.; pl.Disparities (#). [LL. disparitas, fr. L. dispar unlike, unequal; dis- + par equal: cf. F. disparité. See Par, Peer.] Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; — followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color.

The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures. I. Taylor.

The disparity of numbers was not such as ought to cause any uneasiness. Macaulay.

Syn. — Inequality; unlikeness; dissimilitude; disproportion; difference.