Meaning of divergent in English

divergent

adjective

/daɪˈvɜː.dʒənt/ us

/dɪˈvɝː.dʒənt/

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different or becoming different from something else:

widely divergent They hold widely divergent opinions on controversial issues like religion.

In his book, he claims that the choices men and women make put them on divergent career paths.

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considering many different possibilities, especially unusual ones, in a way that helps you to think of new ideas or solutions:

The school adopted a new test for giftedness that looked for creative problem solving, divergent thinking, and artistic talent.

She is a divergent thinker with an insatiable curiosity.

See also

neurodivergent

Related word

diverge

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The two men outline their divergent views.
Given their divergent personalities and styles, the pairing may seem odd.
Views about the Administration's general approach to terrorism were widely divergent.
What are the factors in bilingual development that may facilitate divergent thinking?

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(Definition of divergent from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

divergent | Business English

divergent

adjective

/ˌdaɪˈvɜːdʒənt/ us

/dɪˈvɜrdʒənt/

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different from each other:

a divergent approach/attitude

divergent interests/opinions/views

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The two approaches have been on increasingly divergent paths for several decades, to their mutual detriment and despite overlapping areas of inquiry.

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The number of local organizations is positively correlated with the number of groups with divergent goals, objectives, and interests.

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Moreover, the experimental economies did not exhibit divergent inflationary paths in cases of deficit values and initial conditions for which least-squares did not converge.

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Other countries have very divergent scores with either cash benefits or health care services exhibiting higher decommodification levels.

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But here the wildly divergent contents of mystical experiences, even those induced by quite similar techniques, are alone enough to put us on our guard.

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Given the divergent interests of computer equipment producers and telecoms equipment producers concerning trade liberalization, the equipment producers could not organise strong support for reform.

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A comparison of the two communities' social structures clearly shows their divergent economic orientations.

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Cervical grooves deep oval pits, generally followed by shallow divergent depressions.

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Bilinguals' divergent thinking routing of information exchange between both lexicons and concepts.

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Due to the curvature of the virtual wall, the wider cell becomes more divergent.

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With nearly half of all constituencies contested, the election dramatically confirmed the extent to which divergent religious sensibilities provoked opposing political affiliations.

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Depending on whether the mapping is modal or non-modal, or is convergent, one-to-one, or divergent, six possible mapping types exist.

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The topic prompted divergent individual responses rather than a convergent collective endeavor, even among the supporters of the interests of natural science.

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The predicted patterns of occurrence of convergent and divergent species pairs in the three habitat patterns differ.

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It is apparent that the previously identified regulatory phosphorylation sites are highly conserved across widely divergent vertebrate species.

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