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Question: What is the opposite of 'difference'!?
The opposite of 'different' is 'same'!.
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Identity!. The comparing identity is a search for difference!. Grammatically IF the opposite for 'different' is 'identity' then an opposite for 'difference' is 'identity'!. What is the difference of 4 from 2, it is 2, what is the difference of 4 from 0, it is 4 !.


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Essence is mere Identity and reflection in itself only as it is self-relating negativity, and in that way self-repulsion!. It contains therefore essentially the characteristic of Difference!.

Other-being is here no longer qualitative, taking the shape of the character or limit!. It is now in essence, in self-relating essence, and therefore the negation is at the same time a relation – is, in short, Distinction, Relativity, Mediation!.

To ask 'How Identity comes to Difference' assumes that Identity as mere abstract Identity is something of itself, and Difference also something else equally independent!. This supposition renders an answer to the question impossible!. If Identity is viewed as diverse from Difference, all that we have in this way is but Difference; and hence we cannot demonstrate the advance to difference, because the person who asks for the How of the progress thereby implies that for him the starting-point is non-existent!. The question then when put to the test has obviously no meaning, and its proposer may be met with the question what he means by Identity; whereupon we should soon see that he attaches no idea to it at all, and that Identity is for him an empty name!. As we have seen, besides, Identity is undoubtedly a negative – not however an abstract empty Nought, but the negation of Being and its characteristics!. Being so, Identity is at the same time self-relation, and, what is more, negative self-relation; in other words, it draws a distinction between it and itself!.'

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It depends on the meaning of difference!.
Indifference (when opposite of ability is inability!)
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As per the dictionary refered to in my source:
Synonyms: difference, dissimilarity, unlikeness, divergence, variation, distinction, discrepancy
These nouns refer to a lack of correspondence or agreement!. Difference is the most general: differences in color and size; a difference of opinion!.
Dissimilarity is difference between things otherwise alike or comparable: a dissimilarity between the twins' personalities!.
Unlikeness usually implies greater and more obvious difference: unlikeness among their teaching styles!.
Divergence suggests an increasing difference: points of divergence between British and American English!.
Variation occurs between things of the same class or species; often it refers to modification of something original, prescribed, or typical: variations in temperature; a variation in shape!.
Distinction often means a difference in detail determinable only by close inspection: the distinction between "good" and "excellent!."
A discrepancy is a difference between things that should correspond or match: a discrepancy between his words and his actions!.
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the opposite implies a duality!. so it follows,the opposite cannot be the same, as sameness cannot be difference!. when given two completely identical objects, they are different in their identity, but there is no discernible difference, as they are basically the same!. therefore, we may conclude, same difference!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

if you were talking in terms of maths then the opposite of difference would be sum!. But in general English, it would be Similarity!. In my opinionWww@QuestionHome@Com

Smart *** answer : If the oppositve of 'diffrent' is 'same' then the opposite of 'diffrence' is 'sameness!.'Www@QuestionHome@Com

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