A message that departs from the main subject.

synoniemen: aside, digression, excursus, parenthesis.

Nederlands: terzijde
Pools: dygresja

A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern).

synoniemen: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, diversion.

Roget 279: deviation; swerving etc. v.; obliquation^†, warp, refraction; flection^†, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure^†; declination.    diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence etc. 291; zigzag; detour etc. (circuit) 629; divagation.    [Desultory motion] wandering etc. v.; vagrancy, evagation^†; bypaths and crooked ways; byroad.    [Motion sideways, oblique motion] sidling etc. v.; knight's move at chess.    ... meer laten zien