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
