Difference
Difference noun - The quality or state of being different.
Usage example: there's a great difference between claiming to care about the environment and living like you really do
Distinctness is a synonym for difference in dissimilarity topic. In some cases you can use "Distinctness" instead a noun "Difference".
Distinctness
Distinctness noun - The quality or state of being different.
Usage example: the distinctness of Jane Austen's writing makes it easy to recognize on a test
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- change and difference
- change and distinctness
- distinction and difference
- distinction and distinctness
- division and difference
- division and distinctness
- variety and difference
- variety and distinctness
- divergence and difference
- divergence and distinctness
- variance and difference
- variance and distinctness
- contrariety and difference
- contrariety and distinctness
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