Meaning of world of difference | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A great or insurmountable difference.
   idiomatic
2. A vast swath or expanse of land or water.
   dated, obsolete

Examples

“There's a world of difference between sushi and poké bowls.”

“There is a world of difference betweene the termes of disobedience, and of deposition. It is one thing to disobey the Kings commaund in matters prohibited by diuine lawes, and yet in all other matters to performe full subiection vnto the King. It is another thing of a farre higher degree or straine of disloyaltie, to bare the King of his Royall robes, throne, and scepter, and when he is thus farre disgraced, to degrade him and to put him from his degree and place of a King.”

“Less than six months separate these two days of the year, but some six or seven years of playwriting have intervened and that world of difference between summer and winter.”

“There is, I think, too much abjectness in this, too much unwillingness to grant that a human being may in fact become, and be, good, and that there is all the world of difference between the evil and the good.”

“The simple exercise of considering these two case studies makes clear the worlds of difference between Northern and Southern experiences of development […]”

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