Digression
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digression
A noun
1 digression, excursion
wandering from the main path of a journey
Category Tree:
act; human_action; human_activity
╚action
╚change
╚motion; movement; move
╚travel; traveling; travelling
╚journey; journeying
╚digression, excursion
2 diversion, deviation, digression, deflection, deflexion, divagation
a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); “a diversion from the main highway”; “a digression into irrelevant details”; “a deflection from his goal”
Category Tree:
act; human_action; human_activity
╚action
╚change
╚change_of_direction; reorientation
╚change_of_course
╚turn; turning
╚diversion, deviation, digression, deflection, deflexion, divagation
╚red_herring
3 digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis
a message that departs from the main subject
Category Tree:
abstraction
╚relation
╚social_relation
╚communication
╚message; content; subject_matter; substance
╚digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis