Definition for Digression:

• A going from the main point: a part of a discourse not upon the main subject.

Synonyms for Digression:

• n.

  •
  • approach,
  • divergency.
  •act (noun)
  • deflexion,
  • divagation,
  • digression,
  • deflection.
  •aside (noun)
  • inter position,
  • inter-position,
  • inter positions,
  • interpositions,
  • inter-positions.
  •communication (noun)
  • excursus,
  • parenthesis.
  •deflection (noun)
  • aberration,
  • variation,
  • diffraction,
  • shift,
  • refraction,
  • drift.
  •departure (noun)
  • deflections,
  • new wrinkle,
  • novelty,
  • wanderings,
  • in thing,
  • turnings,
  • ramblings,
  • novelties.
  •detour (noun)
  • detour,
  • By-pass.
  •deviation (noun)
  • apostrophe,
  • going off on a tangent,
  • circumlocution,
  • wandering,
  • straying,
  • rambling.
  •deviation; straying (noun)
  • drifting,
  • obiter dictum,
  • episode,
  • note,
  • incident,
  • footnote.
  •difference (noun)
  • unlikeness,
  • unorthodoxness,
  • Discongruity,
  • unconformities,
  • non-conformity,
  • Unconformity.
  •divergence (noun)
  • otherness,
  • Alterity,
  • mutation.
  •divergency (noun)
  • disparateness,
  • incomparability.
  •diversion (noun)
  • fake outs.
  •excursion (noun)
  • day trips.
  •route (noun)
  • by way,
  • short cuts.
  •tack (noun)
  • point sail,
  • sidlings,
  • oblique courses.
  •unlikeness (noun)
  • un likenesses,
  • un-likenesses,
  • un-likeness,
  • un likeness.
  •variation (noun)
  • dissimilarity,
  • non-uniformity,
  • distinctness,
  • variety,
  • multifariousness,
  • diversification.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • irrelevancy.
  •
  • distraction,
  • tangent.

Paraphrases for Digression:

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    deviation, aside, aberration, departure.

Antonyms for Digression:

• n.

  • deviation; straying
    accord, straightness, agreement, similarity, sameness, directness.

Digression Sentence Examples:

• This digression may be pardoned, as the sea is so intimately bound up with questions of emigration.

• However, we are not writing the history of slavery, but the story of the West Indies, and must apologise for the digression.

Homophones for Digression:

• dichroism.

Hypernym for Digression:

• n.

  • act
    red herring.

Hyponym for Digression:

• n.

  • act
    turn, turning.
  • communication
    message, subject matter, substance, content.