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Discursive

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or concerning discourse.; Tending to digress from the main point.

    "This period had long since passed; the discursive reading, the enlightened discourse of her grandfather, had cast her mind in a different mould to the usual superstition of her country; but faith and love were only more pure and perfect in a soul too innocent not to be religious."

  2. 2
    Of or concerning discourse.; Using reason and argument rather than intuition.
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects wordnet
  2. 2
    proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French discursif, formed from the stem of Latin discursus and the suffix -if, and in part borrowed from Medieval Latin discursivus. By surface analysis, discourse + -ive.

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