DIVAGATION

diversion, deviation, digression, deflection, deflexion, divagation

(noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); “a diversion from the main highway”; “a digression into irrelevant details”; “a deflection from his goal”

digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis

(noun) a message that departs from the main subject

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

divagation (countable and uncountable, plural divagations)

Straying off from a course or way.

(medicine) Incoherent or wandering speech and thought.

Anagrams

• vaginatoid

Source: Wiktionary


Di`va*ga"tion, n. Etym: [L. divagari to wander about; di- = dis- + vagari to stroll about: cf. F. divagation. See Vagary.]

Definition: A wandering about or going astray; digression. Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation. Thackeray.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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