Vagary vs Variance - What's the difference?
vagary | variance |
An erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action.
* 1871 , , At Last: A Christmas In The West Indies , ch. 8:
An impulsive or illogical desire; a caprice or whim.
* 1905 , , War of the Classes , Preface:
The act of varying or the state of being variable
A difference between what is expected and what happens
The state of differing or being in conflict
A discrepancy, especially between two legal documents
(senseid)(statistics) The second central moment in probability
(computing, programming) covariance and contravariance generally
As nouns the difference between vagary and variance
is that vagary is an erratic, unpredictable occurrence or action while variance is the act of varying or the state of being variable.vagary
English
Noun
(vagaries)- It now turns out that the Pitch Lake, like most other things, owes its appearance on the surface to no convulsion or vagary at all, but to a most slow, orderly, and respectable process of nature, by which buried vegetable matter, which would have become peat, and finally brown coal, in a temperate climate, becomes, under the hot tropic soil, asphalt and oil.
- And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.