Difference
- Distinction (social), a social force that places different values on different individuals. (social, class, and style)
- Distinction (law), a principle under international humanitarian law governing the legal use of force in an armed conflict.
- Distinction (philosophy), the analysis of difference
- Distinctive feature, a concept in linguistics
- Distinción, the practice in Spanish of separating particular consonantal sounds; see Phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives
- The Hua–Yi distinction, the difference between China (Hua) and barbarian outsiders (Yi), applied culturally and ethnically
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Famous quotes containing the word difference:
“As we drew near to Oldtown I asked Polis if he was not glad to get home again; but there was no relenting to his wildness, and he said, “It makes no difference to me where I am.” Such is the Indian’s pretense always.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There is very little difference between men and women in space.”
—Helen Sharman (b. 1963)
“To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)