Digression

Noun

 * 1) A departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; an exploration of a different or unrelated concern.
 * The lectures included lengthy digressions on topics ranging from the professor's dog to the meaning of life.

Adjectives for Digression
pleasing; slight; bitter; political; fascinating; irrelevant; unintegrated; wise; agreeable; descriptive; periodic (pi).

Synonyms for Digression
deviation, excursion, divergence, departure, rambling, detour.

Antonyms for Digression
directness, straightness, perseverance.

Related terms

 * digress

Thesaurus
aberrancy, aberration, ambages, apostrophe, aside, bend, bias, branching off, bypass, bypath, byway, circling, circuit, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumbendibus, circumflexion, circumlocution, circummigration, circumnavigation, corner, crook, crosswiseness, curve, declination, deflection, deflexure, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviating, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digressing, discursion, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, episode, errantry, excurse, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, gyre, gyring, hairpin, incident, indirection, indirectness, meandering, nonconformity, obiter dictum, obliqueness, obliquity, orbit, orbiting, parenthesis, pererration, rambling, roundabout, roundabout way, roundaboutness, rounding, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, side path, side road, sidetrack, skew, skewness, slant, spiral, spiraling, squint, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, transverseness, turn, turning, twist, vagary, variation, veer, wandering, warp, wheeling, yaw, zigzag

Translations

 * Armenian: շեղում,
 * Bulgarian: отклонение
 * Catalan: digressió
 * Czech:


 * Finnish:, poikkeaminen,
 * Russian: отступление, отклонение
 * Spanish: