Noun

• S: (n) difference (the quality of being unlike or dissimilar) "there are many differences between jazz and rock"
• S: (n) deviation, divergence, departure, difference (a variation that deviates from the standard or norm) "the deviation from the mean"
• S: (n) dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflict (a disagreement or argument about something important) "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) collision (a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals) "a collision of interests"
• S: (n) controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt, argument, arguing (a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement) "they were involved in a violent argument"
• S: (n) gap (a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations)
• S: (n) quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup (an angry dispute) "they had a quarrel"; "they had words"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) disagreement (the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing)
• S: (n) speech act (the use of language to perform some act)
• S: (n) act, deed, human action, human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)
• S: (n) event (something that happens at a given place and time)
• S: (n) psychological feature (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) difference (a significant change) "the difference in her is amazing"; "his support made a real difference"
• S: (n) remainder, difference (the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend)