inflection vs difference

difference vs inflection

inflection and difference both are nouns.

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

As nouns, difference is a hypernym of inflection; that is, difference is a word with a broader meaning than inflection:

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

Other hypernyms of inflection include departure, deviation, divergence.

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

Difference between inflection and difference

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