divergent thinking vs thinking

divergent thinking and thinking both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
divergent thinking	Yes	No	No	No
thinking	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, thinking is a hypernym of divergent thinking; that is, thinking is a word with a broader meaning than divergent thinking:

divergent thinking: 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
thinking: the process of using your mind to consider something carefully

Other hypernyms of divergent thinking include cerebration, intellection, mentation, thought, thought process.

divergent thinking (noun)	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	the process of using your mind to consider something carefully

divergent thinking (adjective)	thinking (adjective)
	endowed with the capacity to reason