variance vs divergence

variance and divergence both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
variance	Yes	No	No	No
divergence	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, variance and divergence are synonyms defined as:

variance and divergence: a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions

Other synonyms of variance include disagreement, discrepancy.

As nouns, divergence is a hypernym of variance; that is, divergence is a word with a broader meaning than variance:

Other hypernyms of variance include departure, deviation, difference.

variance (noun)	divergence (noun)
an activity that varies from a norm or standard	the act of moving away in different direction from a common point
an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation)	a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions	an infinite series that has no limit
the quality of being subject to variation	a variation that deviates from the standard or norm
the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value
discord that splits a group
an event that departs from expectations