The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discursion \Dis*cur"sion\, n. [LL. discursio a running different
ways. See Discourse.]
The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought
to thought.
--Coleridge.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete rare English) The action of hurriedly moving hither and thither. 2 (context rare figuratively English) digression. 3 (context rare English) ratiocination. 4 (context philosophy English) step by step philosophic reasoning, as opposed to intuition (compare Iamblichus)
Usage examples of "discursion".
With that, he resumed his dinnertime discursion as if the exchange with his daughter had never occurred.
Despite their agitated discursion, the trio of ornithorps retained their composure.
How strange it was to see a man both old and young, the same man, as if time had split him into two parts and in its circular discursion finally caught up with itself.