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The spice of life, and also its marketing department.
means The quality of being made up of many different things, or a diverse collection of such things.
from From French variété, from Latin varietas, from varius meaning 'diverse, mottled, or spotted' — the same root that gives us 'various.' Varius originally seems to have evoked visual patchiness, like a many-colored or speckled surface, before it broadened into the abstract idea of difference and diversity itself.
- show business bible
- Variety the magazine launched in 1905, named for vaudeville's mixed bill
- spice cliche
- The proverb predates refrigeration, when flavor literally meant survival
- paradox of choice
- Too much variety measurably lowers satisfaction, studies show