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Noun divagation has 2 senses

• divagation(n = noun.communication) aside, digression, excursus, parenthesis - a message that departs from the main subject; Array
is a kind of content, message, subject matter, substance
Derived form verb divagate₁

• divagation(n = noun.act) deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, diversion - a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal"
is a kind of turn, turning
has particulars: red herring
Derived form verb divagate₁

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divagation

Deviation

N deviation, swerving, obliquation, warp, refraction, flection, flexion, sweep, deflection, deflexure, declination, diversion, digression, depart from, aberration, divergence, zigzag, detour, divagation, wandering, vagrancy, evagation, bypaths and crooked ways, byroad, sidling, knight's move at chess, deviating, aberrant, errant, excursive, discursive, devious, desultory, loose, rambling, stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag, crab-like, astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways, circuitously, obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.

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