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Excursive vs Discursive - What's the difference?

excursive | discursive |

As adjectives the difference between excursive and discursive

is that excursive is tending to digress while discursive is tending to digress from the main point; rambling.

excursive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to digress.

    • 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 ----