Synonyms of tangents

tangents

noun

plural of tangent

as in asides

a departure from the subject under consideration

in the middle of her description of her dog's symptoms, she went off on a tangent about its cute behavior

Synonyms & Similar Words

• asides
• digressions
• excursions
• divagations
• parentheses
• excursus
• circumlocutions
• ramblings
• excursuses
• prolixities
• circularities
• verbosities