difference vs inflection

inflection vs difference

difference and inflection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
difference	Yes	No	No	No
inflection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, inflection is a hyponym of difference; that is, inflection is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than difference:

difference: a variation that deviates from the standard or norm
inflection: deviation from a straight or normal course

Other hyponyms of difference include discrepancy, variance, variant, driftage, flection, flexion.

difference (noun)	inflection (noun)
the quality of being unlike or dissimilar	the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
a disagreement or argument about something important	a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
a variation that deviates from the standard or norm	deviation from a straight or normal course
the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend	a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
a significant change

Difference between difference and inflection

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