Meaning

(uncountable) The quality of being different..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The quality of being different.
2. (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
3. (countable) A disagreement or argument.
4. (countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
5. (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
6. (obsolete) Choice; preference.
7. (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
8. (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.

Example Sentences

You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference.

There are three differences between these two pictures.

But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.

We have our little differences, but we are firm friends.

What was the difference? It was a contention in public.

Away therefore went I with the constable, leaving the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could.

It just won't make much difference to me.

It just won't make much of a difference to anyone.

Word Forms

• differences
• differencing
• differenced

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When Should You Use Difference?

Use difference when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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