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Given a convex and open set \(D\subseteq \mathbb R^n\) and \(\varepsilon > 0\), a function \(f:D\to \mathbb R\) is called \(\varepsilon\)-convex if \(f(ax+(1-a)y)\leq af(x)+(1-a)f(y)+\varepsilon\), for all \(x,y\in D\) and \(a\in [0,1]\). A ``stability'' result of \textit{P. W. Cholewa} [Aequationes Math. 27, 76-86 (1984, Zbl 0549.39006)] asserts that if \(f\) is \(\varepsilon\)-convex, then there exixts a continuous convex function \(g:D\to \mathbb R\) such that \(g(x)\leq f(x)\leq g(x)+J_{n+1}\varepsilon\) with \(J_{n+1}=\min\left\{\frac{n^2+3n}{2n+2},\ell_n\right\}\), where \(\ell_n=m\) for \(2^{m-1}\leq n<2^m\). The main result of the paper is the proof of an analogous inequality with a sharper constant. Also, the notion of \(\varepsilon\)-convex sets in a vector space is introduced, with the help of a generalized norm (a generalized norm is a map \(\|\cdot\|:E\to \mathbb R\cup\{+\infty\}\) on a vector space \(E\), obeying the same properties as in the definition of the norm, with the understanding that \(0\cdot \infty =0\)). It is shown that an analogous stability property holds for \(\varepsilon\)-convex sets. These results should be compared with those in the paper of \textit{S. J. Dilworth, R. Howard} and \textit{J. W. Roberts} [Adv. Math. 148, No. 1, 1-43 (1999; Zbl 0949.26003)].