inclusivity

English

Etymology

From inclusive +‎ -ity, modeled after exclusivity, 1920s, but in more common usage only since the late 1980s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪŋkluːˈsɪvɪti/

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Noun

inclusivity (usually uncountable, plural inclusivities)

1. The quality of being inclusive; inclusiveness.

   Antonym: exclusivity

   • 2001, Jörg Andriof, Malcolm McIntosh, Perspectives on Corporate Citizenship, page 60:

     Corporate citizenship is about employee and stakeholder inclusivity. Stakeholder inclusion requires a long-term, and continuous, relationship to be […]

   • 2002, David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, page 256:

     Modern states have ordered and arranged their racial inclusivities on the necessity of racist exclusivities.

   • 2003, Ian S. Markham, A Theology of Engagement, page 133:

     These are the terms on which Gandhi gives birth to Hindu inclusivity. It is worth pausing to distinguish Hindu inclusivity from Christian inclusivity.

   • 2002, Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, page 66:

     Within a single organization scheme, you will need to balance the tension between exclusivity and inclusivity.

   • 2015 October 5, Roxanne Hobbs, “Why we must stop framing inclusivity as a women’s issue”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

   • 2015 November 24, Conor Friedersdorf, “Brown University's $100 Million Inclusivity Plan”, in The Atlantic‎^[2]:

     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: […]

   • 2017 January 31, Spencer Kornhaber, “Superstars May Be Rebelling Against the Grammys”, in The Atlantic‎^[3]:

     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.

   • 2020 May 20, “Network News: A legacy of greater diversity in transport”, in Rail, page 13:

     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.

   • 2023 April 3, Alaina Demopoulos, “Computer-generated inclusivity: Fashion turns to ‘diverse’ AI models”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[4], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-20:

     Yet the diversity that AI [artificial intelligence] can provide is always going to be virtual – a computer-generated sense of inclusivity.

Derived terms

• gender inclusivity

 

See also

• diversity
• equality

Further reading

• “inclusivity”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “inclusivity”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.