Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
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;
[syn: divergent thinking, out-of-the-box thinking]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
out-of-the-box thinking
n 1: 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 [syn:
divergent thinking, out-of-the-box thinking] [ant:
convergent thinking]