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diffrence

diffrence is the misspelling of difference.

Meaning of difference

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

pluraldiffrences

Questions about diffrence

What is diffrence the misspelling of?
Diffrence is the misspelling of difference.

Words near diffrence in the dictionary

  1. diffractor
  2. diffractors
  3. diffracts
  4. diffrangibility
  5. diffrangible
  6. diffrence
  7. diffrent
  8. diffs
  9. Diffun
  10. diffusabilities
  11. diffusability

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