"inclusivity" meaning in English

See inclusivity in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌɪŋkluːˈsɪvɪti/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-inclusivity.wav [Southern-England] Forms: inclusivities [plural]
Etymology: inclusive + -ity, modeled after exclusivity, 1920s, but in more common usage only since the late 1980s. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)kleh₂w-}}, {{suffix|en|inclusive|ity}} inclusive + -ity, {{m|en|exclusivity}} exclusivity Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} inclusivity (usually uncountable, plural inclusivities)
  1. The quality of being inclusive; inclusiveness. Wikipedia link: Google Ngram Viewer Tags: uncountable, usually Derived forms: gender inclusivity Related terms: diversity, equality
    Sense id: en-inclusivity-en-noun-zloskWVx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ity

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for inclusivity meaning in English (4.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*(s)kleh₂w-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "inclusive",
        "3": "ity"
      },
      "expansion": "inclusive + -ity",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "exclusivity"
      },
      "expansion": "exclusivity",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "inclusive + -ity, modeled after exclusivity, 1920s, but in more common usage only since the late 1980s.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "inclusivities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "inclusivity (usually uncountable, plural inclusivities)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "exclusivity"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ity",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "gender inclusivity"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Jörg Andriof, Malcolm McIntosh, Perspectives on Corporate Citizenship, page 60",
          "text": "Corporate citizenship is about employee and stakeholder inclusivity. Stakeholder inclusion requires a long-term, and continuous, relationship to be […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, page 256",
          "text": "Modern states have ordered and arranged their racial inclusivities on the necessity of racist exclusivities.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Ian S. Markham, A Theology of Engagement, page 133",
          "text": "These are the terms on which Gandhi gives birth to Hindu inclusivity. It is worth pausing to distinguish Hindu inclusivity from Christian inclusivity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, page 66",
          "text": "Within a single organization scheme, you will need to balance the tension between exclusivity and inclusivity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 October 5, Roxanne Hobbs, “Why we must stop framing inclusivity as a women’s issue”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "Progress on inclusivity and equality within organisations remains frustratingly slow. […]The challenge is that focusing solely on women is actually the antithesis of inclusivity. Inclusivity is not about cherry-picking one group for success; it is about removing the barriers to success that exist for everybody.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 November 24, Conor Friedersdorf, “Brown University's $100 Million Inclusivity Plan”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "So I was glad to see the Brown document declare, “a priority in the coming year will be to collect comprehensive quantitative and qualitative information on the climate of inclusivity,” and flesh out a specific effort to get beyond anecdotes:[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 January 31, Spencer Kornhaber, “Superstars May Be Rebelling Against the Grammys”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "Drake, Justin Bieber, and Kanye West may skip the show because of its “irrelevance”—which is to say its lack of inclusivity. […] But if major stars bow out due to aesthetic objections, it’ll be a reminder that relevance and inclusivity often amount to the same thing—awards that don’t reflect the culture won’t be respected by the culture.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 20, “Network News: A legacy of greater diversity in transport”, in Rail, page 13",
          "text": "Lilian Greenwood has ranked boosting diversity and inclusivity among her crowning achievements from her two-year stint chairing the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being inclusive; inclusiveness."
      ],
      "id": "en-inclusivity-en-noun-zloskWVx",
      "links": [
        [
          "inclusiveness",
          "inclusiveness"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "diversity"
        },
        {
          "word": "equality"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Google Ngram Viewer"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɪŋkluːˈsɪvɪti/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-inclusivity.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-inclusivity.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-inclusivity.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-inclusivity.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-inclusivity.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "inclusivity"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "gender inclusivity"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*(s)kleh₂w-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "inclusive",
        "3": "ity"
      },
      "expansion": "inclusive + -ity",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "exclusivity"
      },
      "expansion": "exclusivity",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "inclusive + -ity, modeled after exclusivity, 1920s, but in more common usage only since the late 1980s.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "inclusivities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "inclusivity (usually uncountable, plural inclusivities)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "diversity"
    },
    {
      "word": "equality"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "exclusivity"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English 5-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kleh₂w-",
        "English terms suffixed with -ity",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Jörg Andriof, Malcolm McIntosh, Perspectives on Corporate Citizenship, page 60",
          "text": "Corporate citizenship is about employee and stakeholder inclusivity. Stakeholder inclusion requires a long-term, and continuous, relationship to be […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, page 256",
          "text": "Modern states have ordered and arranged their racial inclusivities on the necessity of racist exclusivities.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Ian S. Markham, A Theology of Engagement, page 133",
          "text": "These are the terms on which Gandhi gives birth to Hindu inclusivity. It is worth pausing to distinguish Hindu inclusivity from Christian inclusivity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, page 66",
          "text": "Within a single organization scheme, you will need to balance the tension between exclusivity and inclusivity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 October 5, Roxanne Hobbs, “Why we must stop framing inclusivity as a women’s issue”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "Progress on inclusivity and equality within organisations remains frustratingly slow. […]The challenge is that focusing solely on women is actually the antithesis of inclusivity. Inclusivity is not about cherry-picking one group for success; it is about removing the barriers to success that exist for everybody.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 November 24, Conor Friedersdorf, “Brown University's $100 Million Inclusivity Plan”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "So I was glad to see the Brown document declare, “a priority in the coming year will be to collect comprehensive quantitative and qualitative information on the climate of inclusivity,” and flesh out a specific effort to get beyond anecdotes:[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 January 31, Spencer Kornhaber, “Superstars May Be Rebelling Against the Grammys”, in The Atlantic",
          "text": "Drake, Justin Bieber, and Kanye West may skip the show because of its “irrelevance”—which is to say its lack of inclusivity. […] But if major stars bow out due to aesthetic objections, it’ll be a reminder that relevance and inclusivity often amount to the same thing—awards that don’t reflect the culture won’t be respected by the culture.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 20, “Network News: A legacy of greater diversity in transport”, in Rail, page 13",
          "text": "Lilian Greenwood has ranked boosting diversity and inclusivity among her crowning achievements from her two-year stint chairing the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being inclusive; inclusiveness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "inclusiveness",
          "inclusiveness"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Google Ngram Viewer"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɪŋkluːˈsɪvɪti/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-inclusivity.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-inclusivity.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-inclusivity.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-inclusivity.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-inclusivity.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "inclusivity"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.