Distinction

Distinction may refer to:

• Two or more things being distinct from one another

Difference

• Distinction (sociology), a social force that places different values on different individuals. (social, class, and style)
• Distinction (law), a principle under international humanitarian law governing the legal use of force in an armed conflict.
• Distinction (philosophy), the analysis of difference
• Distinctive feature, a concept in linguistics
• Distinción, the practice in Spanish of separating particular consonantal sounds; see Phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives
• The Hua–Yi distinction, the difference between China (Hua) and barbarian outsiders (Yi), applied culturally and ethnically

Honour

• an Award or quality of an award recipient
• Latin honors, indications of relative achievement among academic degree recipients
• Any one of the Nine Distinctions awarded by the Chinese emperor
• Order of Distinction, award in the Jamaican school honours system

Armed forces

• in Austrian Bundesheer, German Bundeswehr and Norwegian Army synonym to rank insignia.

Name

• La Distinction, a book by Pierre Bourdieu
• Distinctive (film), film from Power Chan
• Distinction (horse), Irish gelding, third in the 2005 Melbourne Cup
• Distinction (song), song and CD by The Suffrajets