forbidden words: community diversity

community n. 1 This is a good community in which to bring up children:  neighborhood, district, locale, area, vicinity, quarter, residential suburb, environs; environment, surroundings. 2 The entire community is behind the charity drive. The scholarly community welcomed the new library:  group, social group, interest group; populace, population, citizenry, public, people, folk, society.  3  Archeologists and anthropologists share somewhat the same community of interest: area, sphere, field, range, realm, scope, province, arena; sameness, similarity, likeness, affinity, agreement.
Ant. 3 difference, dissimilarity, disparity, disagreement, conflict.

from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.

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diversity n. Diversity of opinions make for an interesting discussion: difference, variance, diversification, divergence; variety, assortment.
Ant. likeness, similarity, sameness.

from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.

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community diversity refers to the variety of life forms within a specific area or habitat, encompassing both the number of different species and their relative abundance. It also includes the range of human differences within a community, such as race, ethnicity, gender, and other social characteristics. 

Here’s a more detailed breakdown:

1. Biological Community Diversity:

• Species Richness: The number of different species present in a community. 
• Species Evenness: The relative abundance of each species within a community. A community with even abundance of species is considered more diverse than one with a few dominant species. 
• Examples: A forest with many different types of trees has greater species diversity than one with only a few types. A community with a variety of plants and animals in a specific area, such as a rainforest, is also diverse. 

2. Human Community Diversity:

Range of Human Differences:
Diversity encompasses a wide range of human characteristics, including but not limited to:

• Race, ethnicity, and national origin.
• Gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
• Age, social class, and disability.
• Religious or ethical values, political beliefs, and socioeconomic status.
• Education level, language, and geographic background.
• Examples: A workplace or school with individuals from various backgrounds, cultures, and experiences is considered diverse. A neighborhood with a variety of residents representing different ethnicities, religions, and socioeconomic levels is also diverse.

from — Google Search. (n.d.). 

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note: I have been focusing on definitions for forbidden words and phrases phrases in dictionaries. I have two from the late 1960s and 1970s that I use because: 1. I own them; 2. I’m curious to see how language has evolved over my own lifetime; and, 3. I’m assuming many people working with Trump would also be most familiar with language from the mid-twentieth century. 

My initial search begins with analogue dictionaries, ie., actual hand held books. If there is no definition in the books I currently own, or a definition needs further exploration, I turn to the internet.

When I look for definitions online, I try to find a source that is either from an online dictionary, or from an academic site. I found the most comprehensive definition of community diversity in one place through google’s definition. I try to avoid the google definition generally, but after much searching, settled on google. 

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example sentences: community diversity

Combining the results of several surveys with different universal primer pairs may therefore be necessary for a more complete description of community diversity and dynamics.
— Nils Johan Fredriksson, Malte Hermansson, Britt-Marie Wilén, ‘The Choice of PCR Primers Has Great Impact on Assessments of Bacterial Community Diversity and Dynamics in a Wastewater Treatment Plant‘, PLoS ONE

In microbial ecology, a fundamental question relates to how community diversity and composition change in response to perturbation.
— Christopher S. Miller, Kim M. Handley, Kelly C. Wrighton, Kyle R. Frischkorn, Brian C. Thomas, Jillian F. Banfield, ‘Short-Read Assembly of Full-Length 16S Amplicons Reveals Bacterial Diversity in Subsurface Sediments‘, PLoS ONE

We examined whether community diversity was associated with influenza susceptibility.
— Kyu Han Lee, Aubree Gordon, Kerby Shedden, Guillermina Kuan, Sophia Ng, Angel Balmaseda, Betsy Foxman, ‘The respiratory microbiome and susceptibility to influenza virus infection‘, PLoS ONE

Thus, further studies on the impact on soil microbial community diversity and enzyme activities should be performed.
Jirong Wu, Mingzheng Yu, Jianhong Xu, Juan Du, Fang Ji, Fei Dong, Xinhai Li, Jianrong Shi, ‘Impact of Transgenic Wheat with wheat yellow mosaic virus Resistance on Microbial Community Diversity and Enzyme Activity in Rhizosphere Soil‘, PLoS ONE

While there was no difference between zones for meiofauna and macrofauna abundance, community diversity was significantly lower in the impact zone.
— Michael G. Reuscher, Jeffrey G. Baguley, Nathan Conrad-Forrest, Cynthia Cooksey, Jeffrey L. Hyland, Christopher Lewis, Paul A. Montagna, Robert W. Ricker, Melissa Rohal, Travis Washburn, ‘Temporal patterns of Deepwater Horizon impacts on the benthic infauna of the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope‘, PLoS ONE

We also estimated community diversity indices from camera trap data that take full advantage of the repeated observation process inherent in camera trapping.
— Jorge A. Ahumada, Johanna Hurtado, Diego Lizcano, ‘Monitoring the Status and Trends of Tropical Forest Terrestrial Vertebrate Communities from Camera Trap Data: A Tool for Conservation‘, PLoS ONE

We concluded that soil remediation and re-vegetation has indirect effects on soil microbial community diversity through their influence on soil physicochemical properties, especially nutrient elements.
— Yuanyuan Li, Hongyu Wen, Longqian Chen, Tingting Yin, ‘Succession of Bacterial Community Structure and Diversity in Soil along a Chronosequence of Reclamation and Re-Vegetation on Coal Mine Spoils in China‘, PLoS ONE

Beyond 13 species, community diversity and food-web nestedness increased as a result of the addition of specialist predators and generalist detritivores.
— Olivier Dézerald, Céline Leroy, Bruno Corbara, Jean-François Carrias, Laurent Pélozuelo, Alain Dejean, Régis Céréghino, ‘Food-Web Structure in Relation to Environmental Gradients and Predator-Prey Ratios in Tank-Bromeliad Ecosystems’, PLoS ONE

As expected, community diversity was higher at those sites with well-oxygenated conditions, a property of healthy river habitats.
— Donovan H. Parks, Timothy Mankowski, Somayyeh Zangooei, Michael S. Porter, David G. Armanini, Donald J. Baird, Morgan G. I. Langille, Robert G. Beiko, ‘GenGIS 2: Geospatial Analysis of Traditional and Genetic Biodiversity, with New Gradient Algorithms and an Extensible Plugin Framework‘, PLoS ONE

Intriguingly, blood meals drastically reduced the community diversity and favored enteric bacteria.
— Ying Wang, Thomas M. Gilbreath, Phanidhar Kukutla, Guiyun Yan, Jiannong Xu, ‘Dynamic Gut Microbiome across Life History of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae in Kenya‘, PLoS ONE

from — Collins Dictionary, community diversity

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April 19, 2025
Hudson Valley, New York

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