diversity
英 [daɪ'vɜːsɪtɪ; dɪ-]
美 [dɪˈvəsɪti]
英語の語源
- diversity (n.)
- mid-14c., "quality of being diverse," mostly in a neutral sense, from Old French diversité (12c.) "difference, diversity, unique feature, oddness:" also "wickedness, perversity," from Latin diversitatem (nominative diversitas) "contrariety, contradiction, disagreement;" also, as a secondary sense, "difference, diversity," from diversus "turned different ways" (in Late Latin "various"), past participle of divertere (see divert).
Negative meaning, "being contrary to what is agreeable or right; perversity, evil" existed in English from late 15c. but was obsolete from 17c. Diversity as a virtue in a nation is an idea from the rise of modern democracies in the 1790s, where it kept one faction from arrogating all power (but this was not quite the modern sense, as ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, etc. were not the qualities in mind):
The dissimilarity in the ingredients which will compose the national government, and still more in the manner in which they will be brought into action in its various branches, must form a powerful obstacle to a concert of views in any partial scheme of elections. There is sufficient diversity in the state of property, in the genius, manners, and habits of the people of the different parts of the Union, to occasion a material diversity of disposition in their representatives towards the different ranks and conditions in society. ["Federalist" #60, Feb. 26, 1788 (Hamilton)]
Specific focus (in a positive sense) on race, gender, etc. is from 1992.
例文
- 1. Few countries have as rich a diversity of habitat as South Africa.
- 南アフリカのように多様な動植物生息地を持つ国はほとんどありません。
- 2.We have nothing against diversity ; indeed,we want more of it.
- 私たちは多様化に少しも抵抗していません。実際には、多様性をより豊かにする必要があります。
- 3.Conservationists are mostly wedded to presrving diversity in nature.
- 自然環境保護主義者の多くは種の多様性の維持に力を入れている。
- 4.Two of our greatest strengths are diversity and community.
- 私たちの最大の2つの利点は多様性と団体精神です。
- 5.Many employers seek diversity in their staffs.
- 多くの雇用主が従業員の多様性を求めている。