Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Diversity

Diversity , noun

[French diversité, Latin diversitas, from diversus. See Diverse.]

1.
A state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness.
They will prove opposite; and not resting in a bare diversity, rise into a contrariety. — South
2.
Multiplicity of difference; multiformity; variety.
Diversity of sounds. — Shakespeare
Diversities of opinion. — Secker
3.
Variegation.
Bright diversities of day. — Pope