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divergently

divergently

6.9
In a way that uses many different ideas or ways of thinking
  • adverb
  • /dɪˈvɜrdʒəntli/
translation icon : divergentemente
  • Being creative means being different, trying new things, thinking more divergently, and ultimately giving more choices to our students.
  • think divergently

Openness to experience, they don't think is divergently, and their conscientiousness tends to constrain their creativity.

Examples

  • These organizations, in particular, and all organizations need to think divergently first before you circle the wagons around a plan.

    Blog text (18)
  • Divergently thinking children find many organizational schemas difficult to understand.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The more divergently we can think, not only in charting but in everything we do, the more successful and interesting our work will be.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The divergently thinking, creative child needs some protection from the type of criticism that focuses on the negative in performance, or which holds to such high standards that the child will give up rather than risk failure.

    Academic text (1992)
  • One of the factors of musical giftedness is the ability to think divergently in music and to produce music imaginatively.

    Academic text (1992)
  • There is a need to understand how cells become resistant or divergently respond to IFN-I therapy and strategies to restore sensitivity.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Here, I borrow a phrase that Anston Bosman employs in a divergently aimed analysis of the sixteenth-century drama Nobody and Somebody.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Openness to experience, they don't think is divergently, and their conscientiousness tends to constrain their creativity.

  • Creative thinkers often solve problems by approaching them divergently, leading to innovative solutions.

  • In group discussions, it's essential to explore ideas divergently to foster a creative environment.

Synonyms

anomalously
vsdivergently
1 8.2

In a way that is not normal or expected

is about choosing other directions in thinking, not only being abnormal
idiosyncratically
vsdivergently
1 8.9

In a way that is unusual for one person or group

focuses on moving ideas into new directions rather than personal quirks
dissimilarly
vsdivergently
4.8

In a different way

is about moving into separate directions of thought or development
disparately
vsdivergently
7.5

In very different ways

is more about taking separate paths in ideas than only being unlike

Antonyms

26 3.7

In the same way across all parts or times

How Differently

radically
97 5.0
divergently
6.9
differently
780 1.1
similarly
226 2.2
uniformly
26 3.7

Surface Forms

divergently positive

Morphology

divergently = divergent (transparent) = diverge + ent + ly

The adverb is formed regularly by adding '-ly' to the adjective 'divergent', yielding the predictable meaning 'in a divergent manner'.

Etymology

Divergently comes from a Latin word made of dis- 'apart' and -verg- 'to turn'. So to act divergently is to 'turn away' from one path and move in different directions, which is why it means thinking or developing ideas in many different ways.