Diversity vs Medley - What's the difference?
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The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.
* c''1386 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), ''(w, The Man of Law's Tale) , 87:
A variety; diverse types or examples.
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:(Holland)
A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
:a fruit medley
*Addison
*:this medley of philosophy and war
*W. Walsh
*:Love is a medley of endearments, jars, / Suspicions, reconcilements, wars.
(music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
:They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.
(swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
A cloth of mixed colours.
:(Fuller)
Diversity is a related term of medley.
As nouns the difference between diversity and medley
is that diversity is the quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness while medley is .As a verb medley is
(music) to combine, to form a medley.diversity
English
Noun
(diversities)- Ther was swich diversitee Bitwene hir bothe lawes.
Nick Miroff
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 .}}