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Definition of divergent

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

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