digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling
(adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; “amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women’s fashions among other things”; “a rambling discursive book”; “his excursive remarks”; “a rambling speech about this and that”
dianoetic, discursive
(adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition
Source: WordNet® 3.1
discursive (comparative more discursive, superlative most discursive)
(of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
(philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.
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Source: Wiktionary
Dis*cur"sive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. discursif. See Discourse, and cf. Discoursive.]
1. Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. "Discursive notices." De Quincey. The power he [Shakespeare] delights to show is not intense, but discursive. Hazlitt. A man rather tacit than discursive. Carlyle.
2. Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. Reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. Milton.
– Dis*cur"sive*ly, adv.
– Dis*cur"sive*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
