| Main Entry: | digression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deviation; straying |
Synonyms: |
apostrophe, aside, deflection, departure, detour, difference, discursion, divagation, divergence, diversion, drifting, episode, excursion, excursus, footnote, incident, note, obiter dictum, parenthesis, rambling, variation, wandering |
Antonyms: |
directness, straightness |
| Main Entry: | aside |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confidential statement |
Synonyms: |
departure, digression, discursion, interpolation, interposition, parenthesis, tangent, throwaway |
| Main Entry: | departure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deviation from normal, expected |
Synonyms: |
aberration, branching off, branching out, change, declination, deflection, difference, digression, divergence, diversion, in thing, innovation, last word, latest thing, new wrinkle, novelty, rambling, shift, straying, turning, variance, variation, veering, wandering |
Antonyms: |
abidance, continuation, keeping, stay |
| Main Entry: | deviation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, departure |
Synonyms: |
aberration, alteration, anomaly, breach, crotch, deflection, detour, difference, digression, discrepancy, disparity, divergence, diversion, fluctuation, fork, hereticism, inconsistency, irregularity, modification, shift, transgression, turning, variance, variation |
Antonyms: |
conformity, sameness, straightforwardness, uniformity |
| Main Entry: | difference |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissimilarity, distinctness |
Synonyms: |
aberration, alteration, anomaly, antithesis, asymmetry, change, characteristic, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, departure, deviation, digression, discongruity, discrepancy, disparity, dissemblance, distinction, divergence, diversity, exception, heterogeneity, idiosyncrasy, inequality, irregularity, nonconformity, opposition, particularity, peculiarity, separateness, separation, singularity, unconformity, unlikeness, unorthodoxness, variance, variation, variety |
| Notes: | deference is a courteous expression of regard or respect, while difference is the quality of being unlike or dissimilar deferential means showing courteous expression of regard or respect; difference is the quality of being unlike or dissimilar; differential means relating to or showing a difference or the quality of the difference between similar things |
Antonyms: |
accord, agreement, alikeness, concurrence, conformity, likeness, sameness, similarity, uniformity |
| Main Entry: | divergence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | branching out; difference |
Synonyms: |
aberration, alteration, alterity, crotch, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, digression, disagreeing, discrepancy, disparity, dissemblance, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distinction, divagation, divergency, diversity, division, fork, mutation, otherness, parting, radiation, ramification, separation, turning, unlikeness, variety, varying |
Antonyms: |
accord, agreement, concord, convergence, harmony, sameness |
| Main Entry: | diversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change in a course, path |
Synonyms: |
aberration, alteration, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, digression, divergence, fake out, red herring, turning, variation |
Antonyms: |
conforming, staying |
| Main Entry: | excursion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | journey |
Synonyms: |
circuit, cruise, day trip, digression, expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, picnic, pleasure trip, ramble, round trip, safari, tour, trek, trip, walk, wandering |
| Main Entry: | route |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | path over which someone or something travels |
Synonyms: |
avenue, beat, beeline, byway, circuit, course, detour, digression, direction, divergence, itinerary, journey, line, meandering, passage, pavement, pike, plot, program, rambling, range, road, round, rounds, run, short cut, tack, track, trail, wandering, way |
| Main Entry: | tack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | course of movement |
Synonyms: |
aim, alteration, approach, bearing, bend, deflection, deviation, digression, direction, double, echelon, heading, line, method, oblique course, path, plan, point of sail, procedure, set, shift, siding, sidling, sweep, swerve, switch, tactic, tangent, turn, variation, way, yaw, zigzag |