Variety /(?)/

pl. Varieties

1. The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.

   Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty.

   The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light.

   For earth hath this variety from heaven.

   There is a variety in the tempers of good men.

2. That which is various.
3. A number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks.

   He . . . wants more time to do that variety of good which his soul thirsts after.

4. Something varying or differing from others of the same general kind; one of a number of things that are akin; a sort; as, varieties of wood, land, rocks, etc.
5. An individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means; hence, a subdivision, or peculiar form, of a species. (Biol.)
6. In inorganic nature, one of those forms in which a species may occur, which differ in minor characteristics of structure, color, purity of composition, etc.
7. Such entertainment as in given in variety shows; the production of, or performance in, variety shows. (Theaters) [Cant]

   All sorts are here that all the earth yields! Variety without end.

   But see in all corporeal nature's scene, What changes, what diversities, have been!