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1. A message that departs from the main subject
   - aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis
    
2. A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
   "a digression into irrelevant details"
   - diversion, deviation, deflection, deflexion [Brit], divagation
    
3. Wandering from the main path of a journey
   - excursion

Derived forms: digressions

See also: digress

Type of: content, journey, journeying, message, subject matter, substance, turn, turning

Encyclopedia: Digression