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excursus
noun
(ex-cur-sus)
a message that departs from the main subject
Synonyms:
aside
,
digression
,
divagation
,
parenthesis
,
Words Related to
excursus
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digression
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parenthesis
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aside
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divagation
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exegesis
,
disquisition
,
exegetical
,
explication
,
epilogue
,
compendious
,
anecdote
,
polemic
,
epigraph
,
recapitulation
,
peroration
,
narrative
,
historiography
,
orientalism
,
mimesis
,
prolixity
,
koans
,
epigram
,
doubleness
,
pedantry
,
terseness
,
anouilh
,
billet doux
,
panegyric
,
journalese
,
contemplations
,
factuality
,
cogitations
,
metafiction
,
endnote
,
intertextuality
,
apercus
,
threnody
,
casuistry
,
teleology
,
incomprehensibility
,
derrida
,
indirectness
,
ambiguousness
,
dialectic
,
apologia
,
locution
,
weltanschauung
,
poesy
,
shavian
,
objective correlative
,
everydayness
,
punctiliousness
,
contemporaneity
,
tautologies
,
hermeneutic
,
metanoia
,
literalness
,
anecdotage
,
elision
,
declarative sentence
,
incoherency
,
caesura
,
esotericism
,
attitudinizing
,
platonism
,
arthur schopenhauer
,
sophoclean
,
unintelligibility
,
jouissance
,
soren kierkegaard
,
treatise
,
circumlocution
,
presentiment
,
maritain
,
ford madox ford
,
idealization
,
syllogisms
,
prose poem
,
en passant
,
quiddity
,
tu quoque
,
messianism
,
wishfulness
,
ironist
,
incommensurability
,
speciousness
,
expostulation
,
existentialist philosophy
,
parashah
,
wordiness
,
antisemite
,
historicism
,
pompousness
,
lucidity
,
idiosyncrasy
,
millenarianism
,
lexis
,
ascription
,
absurdism
,
profundity
,
excursus
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