Divagation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Divagation is a noun meaning Straying off from a course or way.
Meaning
Straying off from a course or way.
More Meanings
- (medicine) Incoherent or wandering speech and thought.
Example Sentences
But this was a divagation, and he pulled himself back to the askings of the moment
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 […]
Word Forms
- divagations
Synonyms for divagation
Depending on context, synonyms include digression, aside, parenthesis, excursus.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include digression, aside, excursus, parenthesis, deviation, wandering.
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