tangent

tangent

noun

Definition of TANGENT

a departure from the subject under consideration <in the middle of her description of her dog's symptoms, she went off on a tangent about its cute behavior>

Synonyms aside, digression, divagation, excursion

Related Words excursus, parenthesis; rambling; circuitousness, circularity, circumlocution, diffuseness, prolixity, verbosity, windiness, wordiness