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divergence
 
NOUN:1. A departing from what is prescribed: aberration, departure, deviation, divergency, diversion. See APPROACH, CORRECT. 2. The condition of being unlike or dissimilar: difference, discrepance, discrepancy, disparity, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distinction, divarication, divergency, unlikeness. See SAME. 3. An instance of digressing: aside, deviation, digression, divagation, divergency, excursion, excursus, irrelevancy, parenthesis, tangent. See APPROACH. 4. The condition of being divided, as in opinion: disunion, disunity, divergency, division, schism. See ASSEMBLE.
 
 
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