Discursion

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  84 Moby Thesaurus words for "discursion":
     Wanderjahr, aberrancy, aberration, afoot and lighthearted, aside,
     bend, bias, branching off, bumming, bypath, byway, circuitousness,
     corner, crook, curve, declination, departure, detour, deviance,
     deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, divagation,
     divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift,
     drifting, episode, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation,
     flitting, gadding, hairpin, hoboism, indirection, itineracy,
     itinerancy, nomadism, obliquity, parenthesis, peregrination,
     pererration, ramble, rambling, roam, roaming, rove, roving, sheer,
     shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, side path,
     side road, sidetrack, skew, slant, straying, sweep, swerve,
     swerving, swinging, tack, traipsing, turn, turning, twist,
     vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism, vagrancy, variation, veer,
     wandering, wayfaring, yaw, zigzag