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What is the noun for digression?

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digression
  1. A departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; an exploration of a different or unrelated concern.
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    1. “The digression is far too short and undeveloped to plausibly stand on its own as an apocalypse without such an intertextual hermeneutical link.”
      “To conclude my digression, let me tell that my pal quickly saw the error of his ways and got a decent job in a newspaper soon after.”
      “By way of digression and as an aside, here's a little anecdote from education.”
digressiveness
  1. The quality or state of being digressive.
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    1. “Yet even discounting the frequent abstractness and digressiveness of his writing style, he remains a somewhat elusive thinker.”
      “He tore into his guitar solos with a ferocity that seemed to forget the previous two years of druggy digressiveness.”
      “Works such as Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy made digressiveness itself a part of the satire.”
digressions
  1. plural of digression
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    1. “Christopher's digressions into maths and existential questions amplify what is, on one level, a family drama with a whodunnit attached.”
      “However, some editing would not be amiss, as each piece continues long after its point has been made, with too many digressions and asides.”
      “He seemed eager to run out the clock as he filled time with digressions and minor details.”
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