Entry Word: difference

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 the quality or state of being different <there's a great difference between claiming to care about the environment and living like you really do>

Synonyms contrast, disagreement, discrepancy, disparateness, disparity, dissimilarity, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, diverseness, diversity, unlikeness

Related Words deviance, divergence; change, modification, variation; conflict, discord, discordance, dissension, dissent, dissidence, disunity, friction, strife; variability, variance; incompatibility, incongruity, incongruousness; disproportion

Near Antonyms identicalness, identity; analogy, similitude; accordance, agreement, conformity, congruity, correspondence; equality, equivalence, equivalency; parallelism

Antonyms alikeness, community, likeness, resemblance, sameness, similarity

2 variance of opinion on a matter <we must try to settle our differences without fighting> — see disagreement 1
3 the act, process, or result of making different <it wonʼt make any difference which one you choose> — see change