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variation
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of VARIATION
1
a distinct treatment of something (as a story or a play) <the movie begins with a somewhat irreverent variation on the Nativity story>
2
the act, process, or result of making different <the latest in a long line of variations in her hair color>
Synonyms alteration, difference, modification, redoing, refashioning, remaking, remodeling, revamping, review, revise, revision, reworking, variation
Related Words amendment, correction, rectification, reform; conversion, deformation, distortion, metamorphosis, mutation, transfiguration, transformation; fluctuation, oscillation, shift; displacement, replacement, substitution; adjustment, modulation, regulation, tweak; redesign, redo
Antonyms fixation, stabilization
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