discrepancy

discrepancy
    n 1: a difference between conflicting facts or claims or
         opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion" [syn:
         {discrepancy}, {disagreement}, {divergence}, {variance}]
    2: an event that departs from expectations [syn: {discrepancy},
       {variance}, {variant}]
    

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.
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         There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth
         and age, men and women.                  --Sir T.
                                                  Elyot.
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         There is no real discrepancy between these two
         genealogies.                             --G. S. Faber.
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DISCREPANCY. A difference between one thing and another, between one writing 
and another; a variance. (q.v.) 
     2. Discrepancies are material and immaterial. A discrepancy is 
immaterial when there is such a difference between a thing alleged, and a 
thing offered in evidence, as to show they are not substantially the same; 
as, when the plaintiff in his declaration for a malicious arrest averred, 
that "the plaintiff, in that action, did not prosecute his said suit, but 
therein made default," and the record was, that he obtained a rule to 
discontinue. 4 M. & M. 2 5 3. An immaterial discrepancy is one which does 
not materially affect the cause as, where a declaration stated that a deed 
bore date in a certain year of our Lord, and the deed was simply dated " 
March 30, 1701." 2 Salk. 658; 19 John. 49 5 Taunt. 707; 2 B. & A. 301; 8 
Miss. R. 428; 2 M'Lean, 69; 1 Metc. 59; 21 Pick. 486. 
    

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