Distance is the measure of how far you have travelled so far where as displacement tells you how far you are away from the starting point irrespective of the distance you have covered.
Displacement does not count the steps taken or the area covered while travelling, it just calculates the distance from the point you are and the point you originally started from. Whereas distance measures and calculates every area covered regardless of the fact that the area might be covered twice by the object, it just calculates the total area or path covered in total.
One of the most prominent differences between distance and displacement is that the distance covered between the two points is always greater or equal to the magnitude of displacement.
Distance is measured even in curves whereas displacement is in a straight line. Distance is the actual path covered and displacement is the shortest distance from the object to the point of origin.
