divagation

Definitions

1. Straying off from a course or way.
   countable, uncountable
2. Incoherent or wandering speech and thought.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“It was after the complete⟳ revelation that he understood the romantic innuendoes with which his childhood had been surrounded, and of which he had never caught the meaning; they having seemed but part and parcel of the habitual and promiscuous divagations of his too constructive companion. When it came over him that, for years, she had made a fool of him, to himself and to others, he could have⟳ beaten her, for grief and shame […]”

“But this was a divagation, and he pulled himself back to the askings of the moment”

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