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difference

noun

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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 of difference

contrast, disagreement, discrepancy, disparateness, disparity, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distance, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, diverseness, diversity, otherness, unlikeness

Words Related to difference

deviance, divergence

differentiability, discriminability, distinguishability

change, modification, variation

conflict, discord, discordance, dissension (also dissention), dissent, dissidence, disunity, friction, strife

variability, variance

anomalousness, dichotomy, incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness, nonconformity

disproportion, imbalance, inequality, nonequivalence

Near Antonyms of difference

identicalness, identity

accordance, agreement, conformity, congruity, correspondence, parallelism, similitude

equality, equivalence, equivalency

homogeneity, homogeneousness, uniformity

Antonyms of difference

alikeness, analogousness, analogy, community, likeness, resemblance, sameness, similarity

2 variance of opinion on a matter

we must try to settle our differences without fighting

Synonyms of difference

contestation, controversy, debate, difficulty, disagreement, disputation, dispute, dissension (also dissention), dissensus, firestorm, nonconcurrence

Words Related to difference

clash, collision, conflict, confliction, disaccord, discord, dissonance

apartness, divarication, division

combat, contention, strife, struggle

altercation, argument, bicker, falling-out, fight, kickup, misunderstanding, quarrel, set-to

Near Antonyms of difference

acceptance, compliance

concord, peace

Antonyms of difference

accord, agreement, consensus, harmony, unanimity

3 the act, process, or result of making different

it wonʼt make any difference which one you choose

Synonyms of difference

alteration, change, modification, redoing, refashioning, remaking, remodeling, revamping, review, revise, revision, reworking, variation

Words Related to difference

amendment, correction, rectification, reform

conversion, deformation, distortion, metamorphosis, mutation, transfiguration, transformation

fluctuation, oscillation, shift

displacement, replacement, substitution

adjustment, modulation, regulation, tweak

redesign, redo

Antonyms of difference

fixation, stabilization

difference

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of difference

to understand or point out the difference in

people who cannot difference God's will from their own selfish desires and prejudices

Synonyms of difference

differentiate, discern, discriminate, distinguish, secern, separate

Words Related to difference

contradistinguish

comprehend, grasp, know, understand

divide, part, sever

demarcate, mark (off), set off

Near Antonyms of difference

confound, lump (together), mingle

Antonyms of difference

confuse, mistake, mix (up)

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