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digression
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of DIGRESSION
a departure from the subject under consideration <the professor's frequent and extended digressions are the stuff of campus legend>
Related Words excursus, parenthesis; rambling; circuitousness, circularity, circumlocution, diffuseness, prolixity, verbosity, windiness, wordiness
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