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Definition of Divagation
1. Noun. A message that departs from the main subject.
Generic synonyms: Content, Message, Subject Matter, Substance
Derivative terms: Digress, Divagate, Parenthetic, Parenthetical
2. Noun. A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern). "A deflection from his goal"
Generic synonyms: Turn, Turning
Specialized synonyms: Red Herring
Derivative terms: Deflect, Deflect, Deflect, Deflect, Deviate, Deviate, Digress, Divagate, Diversionary, Diversionist, Divert
Definition of Divagation
1. n. A wandering about or going astray; digression.
Definition of Divagation
1. Noun. straying off from a course or way ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Divagation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divagation
Literary usage of Divagation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"It has been admitted that De Quincey's unexpectedness and divagation are often
... Too often this divagation takes the form of a jocularity which appears to ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1890)
"... he is at the mercy of the will-o'-the-wisp of divagation. ... to a still
greater degree, of this same habit of quasi-serious divagation. ..."
3. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1881)
"divagation"has only recently been admitted to the supplement of "Worcester's
Unabridged," with the meaning, "A going astray or wandering," and Thackeray is ..."
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