DIFFERENCE OF OPINION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does difference of opinion mean? 

• DIFFERENCE OF OPINION (noun)
  The noun DIFFERENCE OF OPINION has 1 sense:

1. a disagreement or argument about something important

  Familiarity information: DIFFERENCE OF OPINION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIFFERENCE OF OPINION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disagreement or argument about something important

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

conflict; difference; difference of opinion; dispute

Context example:

the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats

Hypernyms ("difference of opinion" is a kind of...):

disagreement (the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "difference of opinion"):

collision (a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals)

arguing; argument; contention; contestation; controversy; disceptation; disputation; tilt (a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement)

gap (a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations)

dustup; quarrel; row; run-in; words; wrangle (an angry dispute)

 Context examples 

The case admitted no difference of opinion: they must go to the drawing-room directly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

On November 5 when Mars confronts Pluto, you may have a difference of opinion over costs, and you might feel dominated and heavily pressured.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Listen to this: It is satisfactory to know that there can be no difference of opinion upon this case, since Mr. Lestrade, one of the most experienced members of the official force, and Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the well-known consulting expert, have each come to the conclusion that the grotesque series of incidents, which have ended in so tragic a fashion, arise from lunacy rather than from deliberate crime.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A difference of opinion had arisen between herself and Mrs. Crupp, on an abstract question (the propriety of chambers being inhabited by the gentler sex); and my aunt, utterly indifferent to spasms on the part of Mrs. Crupp, had cut the dispute short, by informing that lady that she smelt of my brandy, and that she would trouble her to walk out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With no material fault of temper, or difference of opinion, to prevent their being very good friends while their interests were the same, the sisters, under such a trial as this, had not affection or principle enough to make them merciful or just, to give them honour or compassion.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)