Digression Synonyms and Antonyms

dī-grĕsh'ən, dĭ-

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Synonyms for Digression

tangent
(Geometry) A straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.
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detour
A roundabout way or course, especially a road used temporarily instead of a main route.
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incident
An occurrence that interrupts normal procedure or functioning; a mishap:
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wandering
Irregular turning of the eyes.
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diversion
The definition of a diversion is an activity, often pleasant, that takes you away from your normal activity, or a detour or alternative course.
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departure
The act of departing or something that has departed.
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aside
Words spoken by an actor in such a way that they are heard by the audience but supposedly not by the other actors
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divagation
Straying off from a course or way
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straying
The act of one who strays; deviation or sin.
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parenthesis
Either or both of the curved lines, ( ), used to mark off parenthetical words, etc. or to enclose mathematical or logical symbols that are to be treated as a single term
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going off on a tangent
An instance of digressing
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divergency
(Uncountable) The state of being divergent
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excursion
(Physics) A single movement outward from the mean position in an oscillating or alternating motion
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irrelevancy
Irrelevance.
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deflection
The deviation of an indicator of a measuring instrument from zero or from its normal position.
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episode
An incident or event that is part of a progression or a larger sequence:
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deviation
The difference between one number in a set and the mean of the set.
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deflexion
UK spelling of deflection.
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excursus
A digression.
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divergence
(Mathematics) The property or manner of diverging; failure to approach a limit.
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circumlocution
A roundabout, indirect, or lengthy way of expressing something; periphrasis
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apostrophe
The superscript sign (') used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word, the possessive case, or the plurals of numbers, letters, and abbreviations.
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Antonyms for Digression

straightness
(Countable) The result or product of being straight.
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directness
The state or quality of being direct.
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Words Related to Digression

variation
Variation is how much something differs from another.
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approach
The method used in dealing with or accomplishing:
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jotting
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pedantry
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Digression Sentence Examples

  • In other cases, it is more difficult to pinpoint what is affecting a child's behavior or learning digression.

  • It bears the strongest likeness to the epic in all save its unversified form; in both are found, as fixed essentials, simplicity of plot, chronological order of events, set phrases used even in describing the restless play of emotion or the changeful fortunes of a fight or a storm, while in both the absence of digression, comment or intrusion of the narrator's person is invariably maintained.

  • Pardon the digression, back to the divorce.

  • First, let's take a short digression into how we got here.

  • To follow it, we must make a little digression into the history of Bolshevism.

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