Being different or not the same; disagreeing about something.
From Old French 'differer' and Latin 'differre,' meaning 'to carry apart.' The word evolved to mean 'to be unlike' and then 'to disagree.'
When two things are 'differing,' they're literally being carried apart by meaning—the word structure itself shows that difference is about separation and distance between ideas.
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