Info vs. Information — What's the Difference?

A brief notation of knowledge.

Details obtained from investigation.

Abbreviation of information.

Knowledge provided about a particular subject.

Casual mention of facts.

Enlightenment or knowledge imparted.

Quick reference to knowledge.

Intelligence or news about specific events.

Informal term for details.

Information can be thought of as the resolution of uncertainty; it answers the question of "What an entity is" and thus defines both its essence and the nature of its characteristics. The concept of information has different meanings in different contexts.

Information

Knowledge or facts learned, especially about a certain subject or event.

Information.

The act of informing or the condition of being informed; communication of knowledge

(informal) information.

(Computers) Processed, stored, or transmitted data.

A message received and understood

A numerical measure of the uncertainty of an experimental outcome.

(Law) A formal accusation of a crime made by a public officer rather than by grand jury indictment in instances in which the offense, if a federal crime, is not a felony or in which the offense, if a state crime, is allowed prosecution in that manner rather than by indictment.

That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".

Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something.

The act of informing or imparting knowledge; notification.

A statement of criminal activity brought before a judge or magistrate; in the UK, used to inform a magistrate of an offence and request a warrant; in the US, an accusation brought before a judge without a grand jury indictment.

(obsolete) The act of informing against someone, passing on incriminating knowledge; accusation.

The systematic imparting of knowledge; education, training.

The creation of form; the imparting of a given quality or characteristic; forming, animation.

[…] the meaning that a human assigns to data by means of the known conventions used in its representation.

(Christianity) Divine inspiration.

A service provided by telephone which provides listed telephone numbers of a subscriber.

(information theory) Any unambiguous abstract data, the smallest possible unit being the bit.

As contrasted with data, information is processed to extract relevant data.

(information technology) Any ordered sequence of symbols (or signals) (that could contain a message).

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.

Any fact or set of facts, knowledge, news, or advice, whether communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; any datum that reduces uncertainty about the state of any part of the world; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.

A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offense against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalf of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand jury. See Indictment.

A measure of the number of possible choices of messages contained in a symbol, signal, transmitted message, or other information-bearing object; it is usually quantified as the negative logarithm of the number of allowed symbols that could be contained in the message; for logarithms to the base 2, the measure corresponds to the unit of information, the hartley, which is log210, or 3.323 bits; called also information content. The smallest unit of information that can be contained or transmitted is the bit, corresponding to a yes-or-no decision.

Useful facts, as contrasted with raw data; as, among all this data, there must be some interesting information.

A message received and understood

A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn;

Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction

(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome;

Formal accusation of a crime

Data or facts about someone or something.

No, they convey the same essence, but "info" is a shortened version.

"Info" is considered informal.

"Info" is quicker to write and is often used in casual settings or for brevity.

"Info" is the most common abbreviation for "information."

Info is an abbreviation for information.

While it depends on the level of formality in the business setting, it's generally safer to use "information" in business correspondence.

"Information" has been in use longer and is the traditional term.

"Info" is commonly used in digital communication due to its brevity.

Yes, terms like "deets" (short for details) can be considered slang synonyms.

Generally, "information" is preferred in formal contexts, while "info" is more casual.

Yes, "information" is more suitable for formal and official documents.

Yes, "information" can refer to a single piece of data or multiple details, but it doesn't have a standard plural form.

No, "information" is usually uncountable in English and doesn't have a regular plural form.

"Info" might not be suitable for formal academic papers or official legal documents.

Not always. While "information" often refers to facts, it can also mean data that might be subjective or open to interpretation.