digression

n

1. maundering, descanting, being diffuse, being episodic, rhapsodizing, waxing long-winded, circumlocution, going off on or at a tangent, beating around the bush; (all of writing or speaking) deviating, divagating, deflecting, diverging, departing, running off; (all of writing or speaking) veering, straggling, turning aside, wandering, rambling, meandering, straying, drifting, roving, losing one's way; (all of writing or speaking) deviation, divagation, deflection, divergence, departure, aberration, ramification, divarication, variation, alteration, declination, elongation, diversion, swerve.

2. excursus, excursion, rhapsody, incidental passage or excursion, Fig. side trip, Fig. trip to the country, Inf. side street; All Rhet. apostrophe, ecbole.