divergent thinking

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsout-of-the-box thinking

   Antonymsconvergent thinking

   Broaderthinking

   Part ofcreativity

Questions about divergent thinking

What does divergent thinking mean?

divergent thinking means "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".

What is another word for divergent thinking?

Close synonyms include out-of-the-box thinking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of divergent thinking?

The recorded antonyms are convergent thinking.

Is divergent thinking a common word?

divergent thinking is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.