divagation
divagation noun: straying off from a course or way.
Noun
divagation (countable and uncountable, plural divagations)
- Straying off from a course or way.
- It was after the complete revelation that he understood the romantic innuendoes with which his childhood had been surrounded, and of which he had never caught the meaning; they having seemed but part and parcel of the habitual and promiscuous divagations of his too constructive companion. When it...1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.
- But this was a divagation, and he pulled himself back to the askings of the moment1905, Francis Lynde, A Fool for Love, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, page 52
- Incoherent or wandering speech and thought.
divagation meaning in Tamil and Urdu
divagation in Tamil
- தொடர்பற்ற பேச்சு
divagation in Urdu
- آورگی, بہکاوا, گمراہی, انحراف
Forms of divagation
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Origin of divagation
Nominalization of divagate (from the Latin verb divagare) + -ion (from the Latin suffix -io).
Questions about divagation
- What does divagation mean?
- Divagation means straying off from a course or way.
- What is divagation in Tamil?
- Divagation in Tamil is தொடர்பற்ற பேச்சு. See Divagation meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is divagation?
- Divagation is a noun.
- What is the plural of divagation?
- The plural of divagation is divagations.
Words near divagation in the dictionary
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