1. Plural of divagation; instances of wandering or straying from a direct course or main topic.
Usage: Formal or literary usage; Often used to describe lengthy digressions in speech or writing

Examples

• The professor's divagations during the lecture left students confused about the main topic.
• Her memoir is filled with charming divagations about childhood memories.
• The speaker's divagations made it difficult to follow the central argument.
• Despite the divagations, the author eventually returned to the primary narrative.
• His tendency toward divagations frustrated those seeking straightforward answers.
• The novel's divagations into historical detail enriched the story.
• We tolerated the divagations because the storyteller was so entertaining.