differing

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of differ

noun

1. difference
   I knew nothing then of the great differings and philosophizings, the setting up and tearing down of fine lines technically and aesthetically between the two that had been going on among the devotees of each […] 1983, Robert Bator, Signposts to criticism of children's literature
   It is the differings and deferrings of language that produce meanings, truths and values […] 2007, Youru Wang, Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought

adj

1. (formal) unlike, dissimilar, distinct; that which differs