differences

Noun

difference (countable and uncountable, plural differences)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being different.
   • You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.

   Antonyms:

   identity, sameness

2. (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
   • There are three differences between these two pictures.

   Synonyms:

   departure, deviation, divergence, disparity

3. (countable) A disagreement or argument.
   • We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.

   Synonyms:

   conflict, difference of opinion, dispute, dissension

4. Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
   • It just won't make much difference to me.

   Synonyms:

   nevermind

5. (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
   • The difference between 3 and 21 is 18.

   Synonyms:

   remainder

6. (obsolete) Choice; preference.
   • That now be chooseth with vile difference
     To be a beast, and lack intelligence.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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