The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tangental
Tangental \Tan*gen"tal\, a. (Geom.) Tangential.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "tangental".
Perhaps in reading this, one has still the impression of chaos but this is written from a live centre and what is chaotic is merely peripheral, the tangental shreds, as it were, of a world which no longer concerns me.
It caught at her, for it had its whetted sharpness, its tangental contact with what she was, yet she sensed the dangerous contradictions at its core.