Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

divagation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: di-va-ga-tion
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Straying off from a course or way.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Incoherent or wandering speech and thought.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"It was after the complete revelation that he understood the romantic innuendoes with which his childhood had been surrounded, and of which he had never caught the meaning; they having seemed but part and parcel of the habitual and promiscuous divagations of his too constructive companion. When it came over him that, for years, she had made a fool of him, to himself and to others, he could have beaten her, for grief and shame […]"
"But this was a divagation, and he pulled himself back to the askings of the moment"

Etymology

Nominalization of divagate (from the Latin verb divagare) + -ion (from the Latin suffix -io).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Usage

Inflected Forms

divagations (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

divagate

Synonyms

diversion deviation digression deflection deflexion aside excursus parenthesis

Questions

What does divagation mean?: Straying off from a course or way.
Where does divagation come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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