irrelevancy
91deviation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Turning away Nouns deviation; swerving, warp, refraction; deflection, declination; diversion, divergence, digression, excursion, departure from, aberration; zigzag; siding; detour, bypass, byroad,… …
92disagreement — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of disagreeing Nouns 1. disagreement, discord, discordance; dissonance, dissidence, discrepancy; unconformity, incongruity, incongruence; discongruity, misalliance; jarring; dissent, dissension,… …
93divergence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. difference; deviation; dispersion; fork[ing], branching off; ramification, variation; disagreement; divergency. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Radiation] Syn. deviation, ramification, separation; see division …
94excursion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. expedition, trip, sally, tour, outing, journey, jaunt; digression, deviation, travel. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. jaunt, outing, trip, tour; see journey . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. trip, journey,… …
95fallacy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. error, flaw, misconception; false meaning. Ant., truth. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An error in reasoning] Syn. inconsistency, illogicality, sophism, sophistry, casuistry, quibble, quibbling, evasion,… …
96tangent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. divergence, deviation. adj. touching (see contact). II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. touching, tangential, in contact; see contiguous . • go off on a tangent, Syn. swerve, get off course, get off the… …
97digression — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. deviation, diversion, divergence, excursus, departure, tangent, aside, wandering, divagation, rambling, straying, circumlocution, parenthesis, apostrophe, going off on a tangent; see also variation 1 . II (Roget s 3… …
98excursus — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A supplemental discussion] Syn. essay, dissertation, summary; see appendix , discussion 2 , exposition 2 . 2. [A digression] Syn. wandering, aside, deviation, excursion; see digression . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An… …
99irrelevance — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. irrelevancy, immateriality, inapplicability, impertinence, lack of connection, remoteness, unrelatedness, inappositeness, inappropriateness, incongruity, inconsistency, insignificance, triviality; see also inconsistency …
100parenthesis — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. brackets, braces, enclosure, punctuation marks, crotchets; see also punctuation . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An instance of digressing: aside, deviation, digression, divagation, divergence, divergency, excursion,… …
