digression
/dʌɪˈɡrɛʃ(ə)n
/noun
A temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing: let’s return to the main topic after that brief digression...
- Except for a few meandering authorial digressions, the novel maintains a cracking pace from start to finish.
- Anyhow, digressions aside, this guy was completely incapable of performing his job with any degree of skill.
- As such, his writings express the digressions, meanderings, meditations, ruminations and speculations that characterise a singular, idiosyncratic mind at work.
Synonyms
deviation, detour, diversion, departure, excursus;
aside, incidental remark, footnote, parenthesis;
deviation from the subject, straying from the topic, straying from the point, going off at a tangent, getting sidetracked, losing one's thread;
divergence, straying, drifting, rambling, wandering, meandering, maundering;
Latin obiter dictum
archaic excursion
rare apostrophe, divagation
- at rest
- Atreus
- atrial
- atrial fibrillation
- atrial natriuretic factor
- atrial natriuretic peptide
- a trifle
- at right angles (or a right angle) to
- atrioventricular
- at risk
- at risk to
- atrium
- atrocious
- atrociously
- atrociousness
- atrocity
- at root
- atrophic
- atrophy
- atropine
- Atropos
- a trouble shared is a trouble halved
- at sea
- at second hand
- ATSIC