Excursion
Excursion noun - A departure from the subject under consideration.
Usage example: the professor's frequent and sometimes far-ranging excursions in his lectures are the stuff of campus legend
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Synonyms for Excursion
Tangent and excursion are semantically related in approach topic. In some cases you can use "Tangent" instead a noun "Excursion".
Tangent
Tangent noun - A departure from the subject under consideration.
Usage example: in the middle of her description of her dog's symptoms, she went off on a tangent about its cute behavior
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Synonyms for Tangent
Excursion and tangent are semantically related in approach topic. You can use "Excursion" instead a noun "Tangent".
Nearby Word: tangential
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Related pairs
- turn and excursion
- turn and tangent
- episode and excursion
- episode and tangent
- divergence and excursion
- divergence and tangent
- deviation and excursion
- deviation and tangent
- parenthesis and excursion
- parenthesis and tangent
- shift and excursion
- shift and tangent
- diversion and excursion
- diversion and tangent
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Tangent and Excursion. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/excursion/tangent
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Tangent or Excursion. 2016. Accessed August 03, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/excursion/tangent.
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