Divergent vs Conflicting - What's the difference?
divergent | conflicting |
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.
Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.
Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.
* 1999 , Herre van Oostendorp, Susan R. Goldman, The construction of mental representations during reading
*:On the other hand, the more effective the current activation vector is in reactivating the conflicting information, the more likely the two conflicting pieces of information are to be coactivated.
* 1841 , Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop Chapter 73
*:Of Sally Brass, conflicting rumours went abroad. Some said with confidence that she had gone down to the docks in male attire, and had become a female sailor; others darkly whispered that she had enlisted as a private in the second regiment of Foot Guards, and had been seen in uniform, and on duty, to wit, leaning on her musket and looking out of a sentry-box in St james's Park, one evening.
As adjectives the difference between divergent and conflicting
is that divergent is growing further apart; diverging while conflicting is striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.As a verb conflicting is
present participle of lang=en.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
Anagrams
* ----conflicting
English
(Webster 1828)Adjective
(en adjective)- In the absence of all conflicting evidence.