Sentence:  With no great <WSD>disparity</WSD> between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The state of being unequal; difference.