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Another word for variance

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Noun

  1. The condition or fact of varying

    See also:

    same

    change

  2. A state of disagreement and disharmony

      1. The waging of war against an enemy; armed conflict.
      2. Military operations marked by a specific characteristic:
      3. A state of disharmony or conflict; strife:
      1. A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties.
      2. The period of such conflict.
      3. The techniques and procedures of war; military science.
      1. Heated, often violent conflict or disagreement.
      2. A conflict or quarrel:
      3. Contention or competition between rivals.
      1. A separation or division into factions:
      2. A formal breach of union within a religious body, especially a Christian church.
      3. The offense of attempting to produce such a breach.
      1. Lack of harmony; discord.
      2. An instance of such discord.
      1. The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
      2. Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.
      3. A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies or substances in contact.
      1. A group of persons forming a cohesive, usually contentious minority within a larger group.
      2. Conflict within an organization or nation; internal dissension:
      1. A harsh, disagreeable combination of sounds; discord.
      2. Lack of agreement, consistency, or harmony; conflict:
      3. A combination of tones contextually considered to suggest unrelieved tension and require resolution.
      1. Disagreement, as of opinion or belief; dissent.
      1. To have or express an opinion different from a prevailing or official position; disagree.
      2. To reach a conclusion contrary to the majority of the judges deciding a case; render a minority opinion.
      3. Difference of opinion or feeling; disagreement.
      1. Difference of opinion; disagreement.
      1. The state or an instance of disagreement; discord.
      2. The presence of a given trait in only one member of a pair of identical twins.
      1. Lack of agreement among persons, groups, or things.
      2. Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
      3. A confused or harsh sound or mingling of sounds.
      1. Lack of harmony; disagreement.
      2. To disagree.
      1. The condition or quality of being difficult:
      2. Something not easily done, accomplished, comprehended, or solved:
      3. A troublesome or embarrassing state of affairs, especially of financial affairs:
      1. The quality or condition of being unlike or dissimilar.
      2. An instance of disparity or unlikeness:
      3. A degree or amount by which things differ:
      1. The act or an instance of striving in controversy or debate.
      2. A striving to win in competition; rivalry:
      3. An assertion put forward in argument:
      1. The act of confronting or the state of being confronted, especially a meeting face to face.
      2. A conflict involving armed forces:
      3. Discord or a clash of opinions and ideas:
      1. A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.
      2. A state of disagreement or disharmony between persons or ideas; a clash:
      3. An emotional or mental disturbance resulting from the opposition or simultaneous functioning of mutually exclusive impulses, desires, or tendencies.
      1. To collide with a loud, harsh, usually metallic noise:
      2. To meet in violent conflict:
      3. To be in opposition or disagreement:
    See also:

    conflict

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Another word for variance

Noun
  1. See also:

    variation

    Antonyms:
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Sentence Examples

  • Paul's attitude towards nepotism was at variance with his character as a reformer.

  • Further, since Socrates and the Socratics were educators, they too might be, and in general were, regarded as sophists; but, as they conceived truth - so far as it was attainable - rather than success in life, in the law court, in the assembly, or in debate, to be the right end of intellectual effort, they were at variance with their rivals, and are commonly ranked by historians, not with the sophists, who confessedly despaired of knowledge, but with the philosophers, who, however unavailingly, continued to seek it.

  • There are other sayings in the book that appear to be at variance with its fundamental thought.

  • The Renaissance closed the middle ages and opened the modern era, - not merely because the mental and moral ideas which then sprang into activity and owed their force in large measure to the revival of classical learning were opposed to medieval modes of thinking and feeling, but also because the political and international relations specific to it as an age were at variance with fundamental theories of the past.

  • z This account is at variance with the literary evidence and rests on that of the coins, as set forth by I.

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