List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 117

SYNONYMS: difference, dissimilarity, unlikeness, divergence, variation, distinction, discrepancy.
These nouns refer to a lack of correspondence or agreement.

Difference is the most general: differences in color and size; a difference of opinion.
Dissimilarity is difference between things otherwise alike or capable of close comparison: a striking dissimilarity between the personalities of the sisters.
Unlikeness usually implies greater and more obvious difference: more likeness than unlikeness among children of that age.
Divergence suggests an often gradually increasing difference between things originally similar: points of divergence between British and American English.
Variation is difference between things of the same class or species; often it refers to modification of something original, prescribed, or typical: variations in temperature; a variation in shape.
Distinction often means a difference in detail between like or related things, determinable only by close inspection: the distinction in meaning between "good" and "excellent."
A discrepancy is a difference between things that should correspond or match, as a conflict in two accounts of an incident: a discrepancy between what was promised and what was done.