divergent

 
Pronunciation: /dʌɪˈvəːdʒ(ə)nt, dɪ-/

adjective

  • 1tending to be different or develop in different directions: divergent interpretations varieties of English can remain astonishingly divergent from one another
  • Psychology (of thought) using a variety of premises, especially unfamiliar premises, as bases for inference, and avoiding common limiting assumptions in making deductions: divergent thinking
  • 2 Mathematics (of a series) increasing indefinitely as more of its terms are added.

Derivatives

divergency

noun

divergently

adverb