Synonyms of the word

variance

• n. The act of varying or the state of being variable.
• n. A difference between what is expected and what happens.
• n. The state of differing or being in conflict.
• n. A discrepancy, especially between two legal documents.
• n. (statistics) The second central moment in probability.
• n. (computing, programming) covariance and contravariance generally.

activity

• n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
• n. Something done as an action or a movement.
• n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
• n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

changeability

• n. The quality of being changeable; changeableness.

changeableness

• n. the condition of being changeable.
• n. the condition of being able to suffer some changes.

departure

• n. The act of departing or something that has departed.
• n. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
• n. (euphemistic) A death.
• n. (navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the…
• n. (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading,…
• n. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

deviation

• n. The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule,…
• n. The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.
• n. (contract law) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual…
• n. (Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile…
• n. (statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed…
• n. (metrology) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.

difference

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being different.
• n. (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
• n. (countable) A disagreement or argument.
• n. (countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
• n. (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
• n. (obsolete) Choice; preference.
• n. (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be…
• n. (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
• v. (transitive) To distinguish or differentiate.

disagreement

• n. An argument or debate.
• n. A condition of not agreeing or concurring.

discord

• n. Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
• n. Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
• n. (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
• n. Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
• v. (archaic) To disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.

discrepancy

• n. An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.
• n. The state or quality of being discrepant.

dispensation

• n. The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by…
• n. That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed.
• n. A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal,…
• n. The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something…

dissension

• n. An act of expressing dissent, especially spoken.
• n. Strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.

divergence

• n. The degree to which two or more things diverge.
• n. (obsolete) disagreement; difference.
• n. The process in which two or more populations accumulate genetic changes (mutations) through time.

division

• n. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
• n. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
• n. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
• n. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
• n. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
• n. A section of a large company.
• n. (taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi,…
• n. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
• n. (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived…
• n. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
• n. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of…
• n. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
• n. (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

moment

• n. A brief, unspecified amount of time.
• n. The smallest portion of time; an instant.
• n. Weight or importance.
• n. (physics, mechanics) The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the…
• n. (historical) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth…
• n. (informal) A petit mal episode; such a spell.
• n. (colloquial) A fit, a short-duration tantrum, a hissy.
• n. (mathematics) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.
• n. (mathematics) A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.

variability

• n. the state or characteristic of being variable.
• n. the degree to which a thing is variable. In data or statistics this is often a measurement of distance…

variableness

• n. The quality or state of being variable.

variant

• adj. Showing variety, diverse.
• adj. Showing deviation or disagreement.
• adj. (obsolete) Variable.
• n. Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
• n. (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
• n. (computing) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
• n. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same…

variation

• n. The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
• n. A related but distinct thing.
• n. (nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north…
• n. (board games) A line of play that differs from the original.
• n. (music) A technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre,…
• n. (genetics) The modification of a hereditary trait.