difference of opinion

Questions about difference of opinion

What does difference of opinion mean?

difference of opinion means "a disagreement or argument about something important".

What is another word for difference of opinion?

Close synonyms include dispute, difference, conflict. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is difference of opinion a common word?

difference of opinion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.