digression Definition

excursus, deviation, excursion, diversion, parenthesis, deflection, aside, deflexion, divagation, tangent, interlude, divergence, aberration, departure, tour, ecbole, ramble, anecdote, non sequitur, interjection, pedantry, wordiness, factoid, tidbit, narrative, silliness, prefatory, pleasantry, rumination, disquisition, explication, terseness, facetiousness, incoherency, 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, riff, logy, teleology, preface, repetitiveness, split infinitive, kinkiness, versification, reductionism, literalism, rephrasing, syllogisms, alliteration, koan, historicism,