variety Does "variety of activity and interest " in the following context mean "diversity and multiplicity of activities and interests" or "the difference between 1. activities and 2. interests"? Context: Even in an age of modern equipment and avant-garde art movements (cubism, expressionism, futurism, and suprematism, to name a few), traditional patterns of behaviour and practice – particularly religious – also endured. This variety of activity and interest informs the art of the Great War, which we can see as both modern and anachronistic at the same time.