Synonyms for variance
ˈvɛər i ənsvari·ance

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1. variance

   Synonyms:
   antagonism, battle, conflict, contention, contest, controversy, difference, disagreement, discord, disproportion, dissension, disunion, hostility, incongruity, inconsistency, opposition, schism, separation, warfare

   Antonyms:
   accord, accordance, agreement, amity, concord, concurrence, conformity, congruity, consent, consistency, consonance, harmony, symmetry, unanimity, uniformity, union, unison, unity

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1. variance

   Synonyms:
   difference, disagreement, discord, estrangement, antagonism, strife, hostility, discrepancy

   Antonyms:
   unity, reconciliation, harmony, agreement, pacification, peace, accommodation, consent

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1. discrepancy, variance, variantnoun

   an event that departs from expectations

   Synonyms:
   random variable, form, variation, division, strain, variate, chance variable, divergence, var., disagreement, variableness, variant, variability, version, stochastic variable, discrepancy, edition

2. division, variancenoun

   discord that splits a group

   Synonyms:
   segmentation, variation, partition, division, divergence, sectionalization, class, part, section, disagreement, naval division, variableness, air division, variability, variant, partitioning, discrepancy, sectionalisation

3. variancenoun

   the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value

   Synonyms:
   discrepancy, variableness, division, variant, variability, variation, disagreement, divergence

4. discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variancenoun

   a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions

   "a growing divergence of opinion"

   Synonyms:
   variability, discrepancy, variableness, division, difference, dissension, variant, dissonance, departure, variation, divergency, deviation, disagreement, divergence

5. variability, variableness, variancenoun

   the quality of being subject to variation

   Synonyms:
   discrepancy, variableness, division, variant, variability, variation, unevenness, disagreement, divergence

6. variancenoun

   an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation)

   "a zoning variance"

   Synonyms:
   discrepancy, variableness, division, variant, variability, variation, disagreement, divergence

7. variation, variancenoun

   an activity that varies from a norm or standard

   "any variation in his routine was immediately reported"

   Synonyms:
   edition, variation, fluctuation, division, divergence, magnetic variation, disagreement, mutant, variant, variability, mutation, version, magnetic declination, variableness, discrepancy, sport, pas seul

Matched Categories

1. • Activity
   • Changeableness
   • Deviation
   • Difference
   • Discord
   • Dispensation
   • Moment
   • Statistics

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1. variancenoun

   Synonyms:
   disagreement, difference, discord, dissension, jarring

2. variancenoun

   Synonyms:
   (Law.) variation, want of conformity (as between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and the proof)

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1. variancenoun

   Synonyms:
   change, alteration, dissension, disagreement, difference, nonconformity

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1. List of paraphrases for "variance":

   difference, gap, deviation, variation, diversion, discrepancy, variances, deviations, deflection, differential, differences, disparity, contradiction, variancepercent, gaps, contrast, variability, change

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1. Laurence Wormald:

   The illusion of being able to permanently depress the risk on equities through smart-beta or minimum-variance strategies has been very, very appealing, and a lot of money has piled in, but that delusion cannot be kept up because it's based on a strategy that doesn't work when the crowd arrives.

2. Kyle Kondik:

   He has the most variance between risk and reward.

3. Anuj Somany:

   The difference between What They Said through their job Ad and What They Had upon selection as Ability, Skill and Knowledge in an incumbent, shows the same variance on his productivity with its cascading effect on the overall performance of the system and the same will reflect in the disparity between "What They Commit" and "What They Deliver" on part of their goods and services quality.

4. Arko Ghosh:

   We measured people's brain activity using a bunch of electrodes on the scalp and what these maps indicate is essentially how much of the variance between people we could explain by just looking at the phone logs, so how much brain activity can be explained by looking at people's history of use on the phones alone.

5. Richard Achiro:

   Men are using the supplements in a way that is risky both to their physical health and their health in terms of relationships and their own emotional wellbeing, it is an expression, or variance, of eating disorder behavior in these men.