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Taken from the first book of 「働く魔王さま」

Context: A girl is having a talk with her friend about having a buzzing in her
ear and lately hearing voices mingled with this buzzing. These voices are
warning her about catastrophes that might happen in the future. At the
conclusion of their conversation her friend says:

> 「幸いその耳鳴りの主も悪意で接触してきてるわけではないみたいだし、いざというとき自分の周りの人に注意を **促せる** だけで **大分違う**
> と思うよ」

I already checked out this question about the differences of 「だけで」 and 「でだけ」
([Difference between だけで and
でだけ?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/7026/difference-
between-%e3%81%a0%e3%81%91%e3%81%a7-and-%e3%81%a7%e3%81%a0%e3%81%91). On jisho
促せる is listed as potential and I used this definition of 大分:
<https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E5%A4%A7%E5%88%86>.

What I am really struggling with here is the last part of 「大分違う」. I first
interpreted this statement with some kind of "positive" intend of the speaker
in the sense of: "When it gets dangerous you are able to warn the people
around you, what will make a big difference"; however I feel something is
wrong here and after checking several definitions of 「違う」 I figured that these
"positive" aspects are not necessarily mentioned there. In accordance with
that I think this sentence rather means: "Being able to warn the people around
you when it gets dangerous is unusual enough". However, I feel like this
interpretation is missing something.

Therefore, my question is whether you can interpret inherent "positivity" into
this sentence or not.

Can 「違う」 have this meaning of changing a certain siuation? (I found a
defintion of 「違う」saying it was equal to 「たがう」)

Please let me know if I am completely off with both interpretations.
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meaning
「大分違う」in this sentence
I think the "positivity" can be inferred from the statement because of「促せる」and
the strongness of the positivity can be inferred from 「大分」.

As you said,「せる」is the potential. From the context,「促せる」seems to imply that a
good thing (i.e. to warn the people around the speaker) would not be possible
if the speaker didn't hear the voices.

Even if「大分」were not used、positivity would not disappear. However,「大分」is more
than sufficient and reflects the speaker's admiration.

「十分違う」would be used if the speaker meant "unusual enough".
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