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Divisive vs Divergent - What's the difference?

divisive | divergent |

As adjectives the difference between divisive and divergent

is that divisive is having a quality that divides or separates while divergent is growing further apart; diverging.

divisive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a quality that divides or separates
    • Rather than fostering unity, he becomes divisive .

    Antonyms

    * combinative

    divergent

    English

    Adjective

    (more)
  • Growing further apart; diverging.
  • * 1995 , Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator , John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 47:
    • 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.
  • (mathematics) Of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit.
  • Disagreeing from something given; differing.
    • a divergent statement
  • Causing divergence of rays.
    • a divergent lens

    Related terms

    * diverge * converge

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