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noun- The quality of being digressive or rambling

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Usage examples (8)
  • Silvis: "Though Menzel has formulated an interesting narrative structure to contain Hrabal's marvelous excursiveness, and has invented a handful of striking visual...
  • National Assembly a message of American excursiveness, overloaded with details, redolent of order, athirst for conciliation, resignful to the
  • And happy man is his dole who retains in grave years, and even to grey hairs, enough of green youth's redundant spirits for such excursiveness!
  • I acquired that habit of dreamy excursiveness into imaginary scenes, and among unreal personages, which is alike inimical to rational pursuits and opposed to spiritual -...
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