How to use difference in a sentence. Diversity, contrast, distinctiveness, distinctness, distinction, disagreement, discrepancy, distance The way in which two or more things which you are comparing are not the same
What is the difference between sex and making love?
The difference between two things is the way in which they are unlike each other.
These nouns refer to a lack of correspondence or agreement
Difference is the most general Differences in color and size A difference of degree but not of kind. Difference, discrepancy, disparity, dissimilarity imply perceivable unlikeness, variation, or diversity
Difference refers to a lack of identity or a degree of unlikeness A difference of six inches. From middle english difference, from old french difference, from latin differentia (“difference”), from differēns (“different”), present participle of differre. The state or relation of being different
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Painting the walls white has made a big difference to this room Do what you like, it makes no difference to me (definition of difference from the cambridge learner's dictionary © cambridge university press)
