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РАЗНЫЕ РАЗНОСТИ coll NP sing rare fixed WO

(often of various topics of conversation) very diverse things, phenomena

all kinds (sorts) of things (goods etc)

this and that various (and sundry) things (in limited contexts) everything under the sun.

Старушки любили посидеть на солнышке, поговорить о разных разностях. The old women loved to sit in the sun and talk about various and sundry things.

Вадим рассуждал о разных разностях, перескакивал с оправдания Димитрова на постановку «Мертвых душ» во МХАТе, с «нового курса» Рузвельта на смерть Луначарского в Ментоне (Рыбаков 2). Vadim was holding forth on everything under the sun, jumping from the Reichstag fire to the new production of Dead Souls at the Moscow Arts, from Roosevelt's New Deal to the death of Lunacharsky in Menton (2a)