'Discursion' definitions:
Definition of 'Discursion'
From: GCIDE
- Discursion \Dis*cur"sion\, n. [LL. discursio a running different ways. See Discourse.] The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'discursion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- afoot and lighthearted,
- aside,
- bend,
- bias,
- branching off,
- bumming,
- bypath,
- byway,
- circuitousness,
- corner,
- crook,
- curve,
- declination,
- departure,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- digression,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- episode,
- errantry,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- flitting,
- gadding,
- hairpin,
- hoboism,
- indirection,
- itineracy,
- itinerancy,
- nomadism,
- obliquity,
- parenthesis,
- peregrination,
- pererration,
- ramble,
- rambling,
- roam,
- roaming,
- rove,
- roving,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- side path,
- side road,
- sidetrack,
- skew,
- slant,
- straying,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- traipsing,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- vagabondage,
- vagabondia,
- vagabondism,
- vagrancy,
- variation,
- veer,
- wandering,
- Wanderjahr,
- wayfaring,
- yaw,
- zigzag