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/ɛkˈskɝsəs/ · noun
A fuller treatment (in a separate section) of a particular part of the text of a book, especially a classic..
Here is what us scholars call an excursus. If you are an honest man the following page or two can be of no possible interest to you.
In his excursus on the Jewish people at the opening of the fifth book of his Histories [...], Tacitus was at a loss to uncover any deep cause for the war that broke out in 66.
The authors devote a fascinating excursus to the Western imagination’s preoccupation with serpents—from Eden to esoterica—and how this primed the ground for Kuṇḍalinī’s reception.
Use excursus when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Excursus means A fuller treatment (in a separate section) of a particular part of the text of a book, especially a classic..
Common synonyms include digression, aside, divagation, parenthesis.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Here is what us scholars call an excursus. If you are an honest man the following page or two can be of no possible interest to you.
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