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A message that departs from the main subject
Answer for the clue "A message that departs from the main subject ", 10 letters:
divagation
Word definitions for divagation in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. straying off from a course or way
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Divagation \Di`va*ga"tion\, n. [L. divagari to wander about; di- = dis- + vagari to stroll about: cf. F. divagation. See Vagary .] A wandering about or going astray; digression. Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation. --Thackeray. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, noun of action from Latin divagatus , past participle of divagari (see divagate ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a message that departs from the main subject [syn: digression , aside , excursus , parenthesis ] a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from ...
Usage examples of divagation.
Considering from the nebular point of view the vast complexity and subtlety of the living worlds, I began to wonder whether the endless divagations of the worlds were really due so much to richness of being as to weakness of spiritual perception, so much to the immensely varied potentiality of their nature as to sheer lack of any intense controlling experience.
Each year shows more and more clearly that Marxism and Communism are divagations from the path of human progress and that the line of advance must follow a course more intricate and less flattering to the common impulses of our nature.