Other forms: disparities
A disparity is a great and often unfair difference. Wage disparity, a disparity between them, glaring disparity.
The unfairness is what it adds to a difference, which is why it appears constantly in reporting on pay and health. It nearly always takes between or in.
1noundisparityA great and often unfair difference.
“There is a huge disparity between what men and women are paid for the same work.”
disparity is a difference.
Latin disparitas is dis-, not, plus par, equal.
Latin
disparitātem
Middle French
disparité
English, today
disparity
From Middle French disparité, from Latin disparitātem, accusative of disparitās, from dispār + -tās, from dis- + pār. by surface analysis, dis- + parity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA