digression
Meaning of digression
noun
- An aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing.
The lectures included lengthy digressions on topics ranging from the professor's dog to the meaning of life.
- The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, particularly for rhetorical effect.
make digression... by way of digression...
- A deviancy, a sin or error, an act of straying from the path of righteousness or a general rule.
- A deviation, an act of straying from a path.
- An elongation, a deflection or deviation from a mean position or expected path.
Information about digression
- It is a name.
- The plural form of digression is: digressions.
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Hyphenation of digression
di-gres-sion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- digression is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
digression synonyms
Meaning aside:
aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis
Meaning diversion:
diversion, deviation, deflection, deflexion, divagation
Meaning excursion:
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Translation of digression
- Spanish: digresión
- French: digression
- Portuguese: digressão
Words that rhyme with digression
Sion, sion, Iasion, Salabrasion, abrasion, antiabrasion, basion, catabasion, chemabrasion, corrasion, dermabrasion, diplasion, dissuasion, erasion, evasion, iconostasion, invasion, microinvasion, mispersuasion, nasion, nonevasion, occasion, opticonasion, overpersuasion, persuasion, pervasion, preevasion, preinvasion, prepersuasion, rasion, reevasion, reinvasion, reoccasion, repersuasion, suasion, subnasion, unpersuasion, adhesion, autolesion, cohesion, decohesion, dyshesion, exesion, hemilesion, inadhesion, incohesion, inhesion, intercohesion, lesion, mesion
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