Deviant vs Divergent - What's the difference?
deviant | divergent |
Of or pertaining to a deviation; characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
Growing further apart; diverging.
* 1995 , Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator , John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 47:
(mathematics) Of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit.
Disagreeing from something given; differing.
Causing divergence of rays.
As adjectives the difference between deviant and divergent
is that deviant is of or pertaining to a deviation; characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard while divergent is growing further apart; diverging.As a noun deviant
is a person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.deviant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- At the trial, the extent of his deviant behavior became clear.
Noun
(en noun)- He was branded as a deviant and ostracized.
- As the graph shows, the March sales trend is the deviant .
See also
(defiant)References
* Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996. ----divergent
English
Adjective
(more)- Divergent thinking and transformations are, of course, no novel phenomena. They have always occurred in the translation process, but perhaps we have not been fully aware of them, or have not been able to categorise them with sufficient precision until now.
- a divergent statement
- a divergent lens
