divergently
- adverb
- /dɪˈvɜrdʒəntli/
- 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.
- Openness to experience, they don't think is divergently, and their conscientiousness tends to constrain their creativity.
Examples
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These organizations, in particular, and all organizations need to think divergently first before you circle the wagons around a plan.
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Divergently thinking children find many organizational schemas difficult to understand.
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The more divergently we can think, not only in charting but in everything we do, the more successful and interesting our work will be.
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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.
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One of the factors of musical giftedness is the ability to think divergently in music and to produce music imaginatively.
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There is a need to understand how cells become resistant or divergently respond to IFN-I therapy and strategies to restore sensitivity.
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Here, I borrow a phrase that Anston Bosman employs in a divergently aimed analysis of the sixteenth-century drama Nobody and Somebody.
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Openness to experience, they don't think is divergently, and their conscientiousness tends to constrain their creativity.
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Creative thinkers often solve problems by approaching them divergently, leading to innovative solutions.
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In group discussions, it's essential to explore ideas divergently to foster a creative environment.
Synonyms
In a way that is not normal or expected
In a way that is unusual for one person or group
In a different way
In very different ways
Antonyms
How Differently
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.