Words and phrases that have a meaning related to digression: (136 results)
Often used in the same context:
disquisition, explication, interjection, tangent, excursus, non sequitur, interlude, anecdote, ramble, wordiness, terseness, facetiousness, incoherency, pedantry, factoid, cogitation, exegesis, generalization, prolixity, reminiscence, inanity, foofaraw, segue, infelicities, intro, didacticism, circumlocution, disjunction, anthropomorphism, elision, tautology, metafiction, coda, philosophizing, monosyllable, conceit, meandering, incongruity, journalese, panegyric, caesura, reverie, revisionism, postscript, copout, archaism, trifle, shavian, endnote, epigraphs, dichotomy, vignette, precis, juxtaposition, existentialist philosophy, onanism, musings, simile, sophistic, dilettantism, ironist, lexis, idiosyncrasy, philosophic, paraphrase, haphazardness, tidbit, prefatory, riff, logy, teleology, preface, repetitiveness, split infinitive, kinkiness, versification, hegelian, reductionism, literalism, rephrasing, syllogisms, alliteration, koan, historicism, pleasantry, billet doux, narrative, flashback, apologia, foolery, bildungsroman, dubiousness, unintelligibility, silliness, rumination, intermezzo, deification, piggishness, transmogrification, pompousness, weirdness, ascription, detour, digressions, detours, footnote, parenthesis, interruption, hitch, preamble, excerpt, foray, lapse, addendum, intermission, lapses, loophole, preliminaries, clarifications
More specific:
red herring
Appears in the definition of:
recall
More general:
content, journey, journeying, message, subject matter, substance, turn, turning
Synonyms:
Also try:aside, deflection, deflexion, deviation, divagation, diversion, excursion
— Adjectives for digression: long, brief, short, slight, little, lengthy, historical, small, apparent, necessary, further, more...
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