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Discursive vs Discursus - What's the difference?

discursive | discursus |

As an adjective discursive

is (of speech or writing) tending to digress from the main point; rambling.

As a noun discursus is

(logic) argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning.

discursive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
  • *
    • This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.
  • (philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.

    • Derived terms

    * counterdiscursive

    See also

    * discourse ----

    discursus

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (logic) argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning
    • (Webster 1913) ----