What does divagation mean?
Divagation means Straying off from a course or way..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Straying off from a course or way..
It was after the complete revelation that he understood the romantic innuendoes with which his childhood had been surrounded, and of which he had never caught the meaning; they having seemed but part and parcel of the habitual and promiscuous divagations of his too constructive companion. When it came over him that, for years, she had made a fool of him, to himself and to others, he could have beaten her, for grief and shame […]
But this was a divagation, and he pulled himself back to the askings of the moment
Use divagation when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Divagation means Straying off from a course or way..
Common synonyms include digression, aside, parenthesis, excursus.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It was after the complete revelation that he understood the romantic innuendoes with which his childhood had been surrounded, and of which he had never caught the meaning; they having seemed but part and parcel of the habitual and promiscuous divagations of his too constructive companion. When it came over him that, for years, she had made a fool of him, to himself and to others, he could have beaten her, for grief and shame […]
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