noun
thinking that moves away in diverging directions so as to involve a variety of aspects and which sometimes lead to novel ideas and solutions; associated with creativity
• Syn: ↑out-of-the-box thinking
• Ant: ↑convergent thinking
• Hypernyms: ↑thinking, ↑thought, ↑thought process, ↑cerebration, ↑intellection, ↑mentation
• Part Holonyms: ↑creativity, ↑creativeness, ↑creative thinking
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noun : creative thinking that may follow many lines of thought and that tends to generate new and original solutions to problems — compare convergent thinking herein
• divergent thinker noun
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divergent thinking noun (behaviourism)
Thinking that is productive and original, involving the creation of a variety of ideas or solutions that tend to go beyond conventional categories, opp to convergent thinking
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Main Entry: ↑diverge
Useful english dictionary. 2012.