THESAURUS
divergence
aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, aesthetic distance, alienation, alteration, amelioration, amorphism, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, antagonism, apostasy, argumentation, attenuation, bad copy, bad likeness, bend, betterment, bias, branching off, breach, breach of friendship, break, broadcast, broadcasting, camouflage, capriciousness, change, change of heart, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, circuitousness, circumfusion, clashing, clearance, cleavage, cleft, compass, conceit, conflict, constructive change, continuity, contradiction, contrariety, contrast, controversy, conversion, corner, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, crook, crosswiseness, crotchet, crotchetiness, curve, dappleness, declination, deep space, defection, deflection, deflexure, degeneration, degenerative change, departure, depths of space, derangement, deterioration, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, difference, differentiation, differentness, differing, diffraction, diffusion, digression, dilution, disaccord, disaccordance, disaffection, disagreeing, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discontinuity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, discursion, disfavor, disguise, disharmony, disorder, disparity, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, disruption, dissemblance, dissemination, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissimilation, dissimilitude, dissipation, dissonance, distance, distinction, distinctness, distribution, disunion, disunity, divagation, divarication, divergency, diversification, diversion, diversity, dividedness, division, dogleg, dottiness, double, drift, drifting, eccentricity, errantry, erraticism, erraticness, estrangement, evaporation, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, expansion, extent, faction, falling-out, far cry, farness, fitting, flip-flop, fragmentation, freakiness, freakishness, gradual change, hairpin, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, improvement, inaccordance, incommensurability, incomparability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconstancy, indirection, indirectness, inequality, inferiority, infinity, inharmoniousness, inharmony, instability, irreconcilability, irregularity, jarring, jerkiness, kink, leeway, length, light-years, makeup, mannerism, margin, melioration, mercuriality, mere caricature, mileage, mitigation, mixture, modification, modulation, monstrosity, motleyness, mutability, negation, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, obliqueness, obliquity, oddity, odds, open rupture, opposition, oppugnancy, otherness, overthrow, parsecs, parting, peculiarity, peppering, pererration, perspective, piece, pluralism, poor imitation, propagation, publication, qualification, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, radiation, radical change, raggedness, rambling, range, re-creation, reach, realignment, recall of ambassadors, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, remoteness, renewal, repugnance, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, rift, rupture, scattering, scatterment, schism, separateness, separation, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shotgun pattern, singularity, skew, skewness, slant, sowing, space, span, spattering, splay, split, spread, spreading, sprinkling, squint, strangeness, straying, stretch, strewing, stride, subnormality, sudden change, superiority, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, switch, tack, teratism, total change, transition, transverseness, trick, turn, turnabout, turning, twist, unconformism, unconformity, unconventionality, unevenness, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, unorthodoxy, unresemblance, unsameness, unsimilarity, unsteadiness, upheaval, vagary, variability, variance, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, varying, veer, versatility, violent change, volatilization, wandering, warp, wavering, way, ways, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, worsening, yaw, zigzag
ROGET THESAURUS
divergence
Nonuniformity
N
nonuniformity, diversity, irregularity, unevenness, multiformity, unconformity, roughness, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, divarication,
divergence, diversified varied, irregular, uneven, rough, multifarious, multiform, of various kinds, all manner of, all sorts of, all kinds of, variously, in all manner of ways, here there and everywhere.
Dissimilarity
N
dissimilarity, dissimilaritude, unlikeness, diversity, disparity, dissemblance,
divergence, variation, difference, novelty, originality, creativeness, oogamy, dissimilar, unlike, disparate, divergent, of a different kind, unmatched, unique, new, novel, unprecedented, original, nothing of the kind, no such thing, quite another thing, far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid, as like a dock as a daisy, very like a whale, as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth, lucus a non lucendo, diversified, otherwise, diis aliter visum, no more like my father than I to Hercules.
Disagreement
N
disagreement, discord, discordance, dissonance, dissidence, discrepancy, unconformity, incongruity, incongruence, discongruity, mesalliance, jarring, dissension, conflict, bickering, clashing, misunderstanding, wrangle, disparity, mismatch, disproportion, dissimilitude, inequality, disproportionateness, variance,
divergence, repugnance, unfitness, inaptitude, impropriety, inapplicability, inconsistency, inconcinnity, irrelevancy, misjoining, misjoinder, syncretism, intrusion, interference, concordia discors, fish out of water, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, at variance, at war, hostile, antagonistic, repugnant, incompatible, irreconcilable, inconsistent with, unconformable, exceptional, intrusive, incongruous, disproportionate, disproportionated, inharmonious, unharmonious, inconsonant, unconsonant, divergent, repugnant to, inapt, unapt, inappropriate, improper, unsuited, unsuitable, inapplicable, not to the point, unfit, unfitting, unbefitting, unbecoming, illtimed, unseasonable, mal a propos, inadmissible, inapposite, uncongenial, ill-assorted, ill-sorted, mismatched, misjoined, misplaced, misclassified, unaccommodating, irreducible, incommensurable, uncommensurable, unsympathetic, out of character, out of keeping, out of proportion, out of joint, out of tune, out of place, out of season, out of its element, at odds with, at variance with, in defiance, in contempt, in spite of, discordantly, a tort et a travers, asinus ad lyram.
Dispersion
N
nonassemblage, dispersion, dispersion, disjunction,
divergence, aspersion, scattering, dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution, apportionment, spread, respersion, circumfusion, interspersion, spargefaction, affusion, waifs and estrays, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra waveson, unassembled &c (assemble), dispersed, sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread, epidemic, adrift, stray, disheveled, streaming, sparsim, here and there, passim.
Deviation
N
deviation, swerving, obliquation, warp, refraction, flection, flexion, sweep, deflection, deflexure, declination, diversion, digression, depart from, aberration,
divergence, zigzag, detour, divagation, wandering, vagrancy, evagation, bypaths and crooked ways, byroad, sidling, knight's move at chess, deviating, aberrant, errant, excursive, discursive, devious, desultory, loose, rambling, stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag, crab-like, astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways, circuitously, obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.
Divergence
N
divergence, divergency, divarication, ramification, forking, radiation, separation, dispersion, deviation, aberration, diverging, divergent, radiant, centrifugal, aberrant.