divagation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a departure from the main subject in speech or writing; a digression

   After several divagations, the speaker returned to the history of the painter.

2. 2
   noun

   a wandering away from a course or path

   Their divagation through the side streets delayed the journey.

From divagate plus -ion, ultimately from Latin divagari, 'to wander about,' formed from dis-, 'apart,' and vagari, 'to wander.'

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