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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions;
- Example: "a growing divergence of opinion"
[syn: discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance]

2. an event that departs from expectations;
[syn: discrepancy, variance, variant]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Discrepance \Dis*crep"ance\ (?; 277), Discrepancy \Dis*crep"an*cy\, n.; pl. -ances, -ancies. [L. disrepantia: cf. OF. discrepance. See Discrepant.] The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety. [1913 Webster] There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth and age, men and women. --Sir T. Elyot. [1913 Webster] There is no real discrepancy between these two genealogies. --G. S. Faber. [1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

92 Moby Thesaurus words for "discrepancy": antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, argumentation, balance, clashing, collision, conflict, confrontation, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrast, controversy, counterposition, credit, cross-purposes, deficit, departure, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discreteness, disharmony, disparity, dissemblance, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, disunion, disunity, divergence, divergency, diversity, epact, faction, far cry, gap, heterogeneity, hostility, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness, irreconcilability, jarring, lacuna, mixture, negation, net, nonconformity, odds, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, otherness, perversity, polarity, remainder, repugnance, separateness, showdown, surplus, unconformity, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, variance, variation, variegation, variety