discursive
adjective
passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
discursiveness
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a word derived from
discursive.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Hara and Ms. Kobayashi favor discursiveness over directness and display no appetite for concision in anything featured in this box.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
That the new season of “Problem Areas” centers on education issues is a useful strategy for containing Cenac’s antic tangents and absurdist discursiveness.
From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2019
At the same time, “Westworld” stays true to an ongoing discursiveness that both exalts in and cautions against the creation of artificially conscious beings.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2018
This discursiveness wouldn’t last, but most of the characterizations would: The sarcastic, neurotic Chandler, too-reasonable Monica, space-cadet Phoebe, and lovelorn Ross are all here, more or less fully formed.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2014
Can't the queerest things happen," Nan asked him, in a discursiveness he found nevertheless relevant, "here in New England?
From Old Crow by Alice Brown
