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Motley vs Divergent - What's the difference?

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Motley is a synonym of divergent.


As adjectives the difference between motley and divergent

is that motley is comprising greatly varied elements, to the point of incongruity; heterogeneous while divergent is growing further apart; diverging.

As a noun motley

is an incongruous mixture.

motley

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Comprising greatly varied elements, to the point of incongruity; heterogeneous.
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
  • Having many colours; variegated.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An incongruous mixture.
  • A jester's multicoloured clothes.
  • (by extension) A jester; a fool.
  • * 1598 , , III. iii. 71:
  • Will you be married, motley ?
  • * 1609 , :
  • Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there, / And made myself a motley to the view,

    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

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