divergency

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From New Latin divergentia, corresponding to divergence +‎ -ency.

Noun[edit]

divergency (countable and uncountable, plural divergencies)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being divergent
  2. (countable) A divergence.
    • 1931, Hart Crane, letter, 13 June:
      I am so sympathetic to her attitudes, reactions and general thesis as not to care to court divergencies of opinion.