Inequality or difference in some respect

Usage examples of disparity.

Thoreau was in so many ways so characteristically Emersonian that one wonders what influence it was in the place or time that gave them both, with their disparity of ages, so nearly the same stamp.

Katya was moved by the disparity of things she and Leonid pulled from the trunks: stuffed animals and extra signal flares, dried flowers and flight logs.

So great was the disparity of the forces that for days acute anxiety was felt lest another of those humiliating surrenders should interrupt the record of victories, and encourage the Boers to further resistance.

There was certainly a considerable disparity between the amount of their respective contributions to the volume, which, in fact, contained nineteen pieces by Wordsworth and only four by Coleridge.

To help overcome the disparity, NSA in 1996 raised the pay of its mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers.

Her preceptors had trained her diligently in the barren little valley to the south where she had been born, but the disparity between teaching and practical reality at times bewildered her.

The disparity between the number coming in from the Army of the Potomac and Western armies was so great, that we Westerners began to take some advantage of it.

Is this all the disparity between what Sybyl’s renaissance can accomplish, and the secret biotechnologies the Calvinians have been hoarding for centuries?

The vast disparities in the world following the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War, symbolized by a computer revolution in some parts of the globe and the absence of reliable electric current in other parts, was something that I took for granted because I was constantly experiencing it.

But it was at the airport parking lot in Bangkok where I first truly encountered Southeast Asia, where I came face-to-face with the vast development disparities in a world in which economic growth, even when accelerating, is lopsided—and destabilizing.

And if that were the case, who knew how many other lists had similar disparities, how many Terreilleans who had come to Kaeleer were now unaccounted for?

After he had a little sleep, he would compose a letter to the High Lord, explaining about the disparities in the lists.

But the College Board (a non-profit organization set up to administer the SAT) insists that all questions are previewed by a representative sample of test takers, and any questions that show disparities in race are thrown out.

Mars and all forward images were obscured by the four-sun glare of the engines, but Mahnmut passed the time by checking on video of the hull, the stars astern, and by rereading parts ofÀ la recherche du temps perdu and finding connections and disparities with his beloved Shakespearean sonnets.

Those huge disparities must have potent causes that one might think would be obvious.