Divergent thinking and Thought process

Divergent thinking noun - 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.

Thought process and divergent thinking are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Thought process" instead a noun phrase "Divergent thinking".

Thought process noun - The process of using your mind to consider something carefully.

Divergent thinking and thought process are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Divergent thinking" with "Thought process", this phrases are similar.