divagation

1. 1.

   a message that departs from the main subject

   Synonymsdigressionasideexcursusparenthesis

   Broadermessage
2. 2.

   a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)

   “a diversion from the main highway”

   “a digression into irrelevant details”

   “a deflection from his goal”

   Synonymsdiversiondeviationdigressiondeflectiondeflexion

   Broaderturn

   Narrowerred herring

Other forms of divagation

plural

divagations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about divagation

What does divagation mean?

divagation means "a message that departs from the main subject". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in divagation?

divagation has 5 syllables: di-va-ga-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for divagation?

Close synonyms include digression, aside, excursus, parenthesis, diversion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is divagation a common word?

divagation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.