difference (n.)
- aberrance
- aberrancy
- aberration
- abnormality
- about-face
- accommodation
- account
- achievement
- adaptation
- adjustment
- aggregate
- alienation
- alteration
- amelioration
- amorphism
- amount
- annulet
- anomalousness
- anomaly
- antagonism
- apostasy
- argent
- argument
- argumentation
- armory
- arms
- asymmetry
- azure
- balance
- bandeau
- bar
- baton
- bend
- betterment
- billet
- blazon
- blazonry
- break
- camouflage
- canton
- capriciousness
- cast
- change
- changeability
- changeableness
- chaplet
- character
- characteristic
- charge
- chevron
- chief
- choppiness
- clash
- cockatrice
- conflict
- contention
- continuity
- contradiction
- contradistinction
- contrariety
- contrast
- controversy
- conversion
- coronet
- count
- credit
- crescent
- crest
- cross
- crown
- defection
- deficit
- degeneration
- derangement
- deterioration
- deviation
- device
- differentiation
- difficulty
- disagreement
- disapprobation
- disapproval
- discontinuity
- discord
- discordance
- discrepancy
- disequilibrium
- disguise
- disharmony
- disorder
- disparity
- disproportion
- dispute
- dissatisfaction
- dissension
- dissent
- dissidence
- dissimilarity
- dissimilation
- dissimilitude
- dissonance
- distinction
- disunion
- disunity
- divarication
- divergence
- divergency
- diversification
- diversion
- diversity
- division
- eagle
- eccentricity
- ermine
- escutcheon
- faction
- falcon
- fess
- field
- file
- fitting
- fleur-de-lis
- flip-flop
- fret
- fur
- fusil
- garland
- griffin
- helmet
- heterogeneity
- idiosyncrasy
- imbalance
- impalement
- improvement
- inadequacy
- incongruity
- inconsistency
- inconstancy
- inequality
- inequity
- inferiority
- injustice
- instability
- insufficiency
- irregularity
- jerkiness
- label
- leftovers
- lion
- lozenge
- makeup
- mantling
- melioration
- metal
- metamorphosis
- misunderstanding
- mitigation
- modification
- modulation
- monstrosity
- motto
- mullet
- mutability
- nature
- negation
- net
- nonconformism
- nonconformity
- nonuniformity
- number
- odds
- opposition
- or
- ordinary
- otherness
- overthrow
- pale
- pean
- peculiarity
- polarization
- product
- qualification
- quantity
- quarrel
- quarter
- quartering
- raggedness
- re-creation
- reckoning
- recusancy
- reform
- reformation
- rejection
- remainder
- remaking
- renewal
- repudiation
- repugnance
- rest
- reversal
- revival
- revivification
- revolution
- rose
- sable
- saltire
- score
- scutcheon
- secession
- separate
- shield
- shift
- shortcoming
- strife
- subnormality
- sum
- summation
- superiority
- surplus
- switch
- tale
- tally
- tincture
- total
- transformation
- transition
- turn
- turnabout
- unbalance
- underground
- unevenness
- unicorn
- unlikeness
- unnaturalness
- unorthodoxy
- unsimilarity
- unsteadiness
- upheaval
- variability
- variance
- variation
- variegation
- variety
- versatility
- vert
- wavering
- whole
- withdrawal
- worsening
- wreath
- yale
Distinction without a difference.
Some say, compar'd to Bononcini,
That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;
Others aver that he to Handel
Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.
Strange all this difference should be
'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and oh
The difference to me!
You must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered.
