Synonyms for divergent thinking
di·ver·gent think·ing

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1. divergent thinking, out-of-the-box thinkingnoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   out-of-the-box thinking

   Antonyms:
   convergent thinking

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1. Gloria Mark:

   Just a 20-minute walk in nature can help significantly relax people, and we found it can help people produce significantly more ideas — it’s called divergent thinking.

2. Jay Olson:

   The test measures divergent thinking and verbal creativity, which are important but limited aspects of overall creativity. Our task won't predict your creative culinary skills, but it will predict performance on various types of problem-solving, which suggests it is doing more than simply measuring vocabulary, still, we'll need future research to assess how our task relates to other verbal abilities or intelligence more broadly.