'Digression' definitions:
Definition of 'digression'
(from WordNet)
noun
A message that departs from the main subject [syn: digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis]
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" [syn: diversion, deviation, digression, deflection, deflexion, divagation]
noun
Wandering from the main path of a journey [syn: digression, excursion]
Definition of 'Digression'
From: GCIDE
- Digression \Di*gres"sion\, n. [L. digressio: cf. F. digression.]
- 1. The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject. [1913 Webster]
- The digressions I can not excuse otherwise, than by the confidence that no man will read them. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Then my digression is so vile, so base, That it will live engraven in my face. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Anat.) The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'digression'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- ambages,
- apostrophe,
- aside,
- bend,
- bias,
- branching off,
- bypass,
- bypath,
- byway,
- circling,
- circuit,
- circuition,
- circuitousness,
- circuitry,
- circularity,
- circulation,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumambulation,
- circumbendibus,
- circumflexion,
- circumlocution,
- circummigration,
- circumnavigation,
- corner,
- crook,
- crosswiseness,
- curve,
- declination,
- deflection,
- deflexure,
- departure,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviating,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- diagonality,
- digressing,
- discursion,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- episode,
- errantry,
- excurse,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- gyre,
- gyring,
- hairpin,
- incident,
- indirection,
- indirectness,
- meandering,
- nonconformity,
- obiter dictum,
- obliqueness,
- obliquity,
- orbit,
- orbiting,
- parenthesis,
- pererration,
- rambling,
- roundabout,
- roundabout way,
- roundaboutness,
- rounding,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- side path,
- side road,
- sidetrack,
- skew,
- skewness,
- slant,
- spiral,
- spiraling,
- squint,
- straying,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- transverseness,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- vagary,
- variation,
- veer,
- wandering,
- warp,
- wheeling,
- yaw,
- zigzag