noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Received-Pronunciation:/ˌnjʊəɹə(ʊ)daɪˈvɜːsɪti/
Received-Pronunciation:/-dɪ-/
General-American:/ˌn(j)ʊɹoʊˌdaɪˈvɝsəti/
General-American:/-də-/
General-American:[-ɾi]
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noun
Meaning 1
The variety of configurations of the brain, especially with regard to autism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From neuro- (prefix denoting the nervous system) + diversity, coined by the Australian sociologist Judy Singer (born 1951) in her Bachelor of Arts dissertation (1998), and popularized by Harvey Blume in The Atlantic in September 1998: see the quotations.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Afrikaans:
neurodiversiteit
— variety of configurations of the brain
Antillean Creole:
newodivèsité
— variety of configurations of the brain
Arabic:
تَنَوُّع عَصَبِيّ
(tanawwuʕ ʕaṣabiyy)
— variety of configurations of the brain
Asturian:
neurodiversidá
— variety of configurations of the brain
Basque:
neuroaniztasun
— variety of configurations of the brain
Basque:
neurobestelakotasun
— variety of configurations of the brain
Catalan:
neurodiversitat
— variety of configurations of the brain
Chinese Mandarin:
神經多樣性 /神经多样性
(shénjīng duōyàngxìng)
— variety of configurations of the brain
Corsican:
neurodiversità
— variety of configurations of the brain
Corsican:
neurudiversità
— variety of configurations of the brain
Dutch:
neurodiversiteit
— variety of configurations of the brain
Finnish:
neurokirjo
— variety of configurations of the brain
Finnish:
neurodiversiteetti
— variety of configurations of the brain
French:
neurodiversité
— variety of configurations of the brain
Galician:
neurodiversidade
— variety of configurations of the brain
German:
Neurodiversität
— variety of configurations of the brain
Greek:
νευροποικιλότητα
(nevropoikilótita)
— variety of configurations of the brain
Hungarian:
neurodiverzitás
— variety of configurations of the brain
Italian:
neurodiversità
— variety of configurations of the brain
Japanese:
神経多様性
(shinkei tayō-sei)
— variety of configurations of the brain
Japanese:
ニューロダイバーシティ
(nyūrodaibāshiti)
— variety of configurations of the brain
Korean:
신경다양성
(sin'gyeongdayangseong)
— variety of configurations of the brain
Latin:
neurodiversitas
— variety of configurations of the brain
Norwegian Bokmål:
nevrodiversitet
— variety of configurations of the brain
Norwegian Bokmål:
nevromangfold
— variety of configurations of the brain
Norwegian Nynorsk:
nevrodiversitet
— variety of configurations of the brain
Norwegian Nynorsk:
nevromangfald
— variety of configurations of the brain
Occitan:
neurodiversitat
— variety of configurations of the brain
Polish:
neuroróżnorodność
— variety of configurations of the brain
Portuguese:
neurodiversidade
— variety of configurations of the brain
Russian:
нейроразнообра́зие
(nejroraznoobrázije)
— variety of configurations of the brain
Sardinian:
neurodiversidade
— variety of configurations of the brain
Serbo-Croatian:
neurotska raznolikost
— variety of configurations of the brain
Spanish:
neurodiversidad
— variety of configurations of the brain
Swedish:
neurodiversitet
— variety of configurations of the brain
Welsh:
niwroamrywiaeth
— variety of configurations of the brain
