discursiveness

Variant of discursive

adjective

  1. wandering from one topic to another; skimming over many apparently unconnected subjects; rambling; desultory; digressive
  2. based on the conscious use of reasoning rather than on intuition

Origin: ML discursivus < L discursus: see discourse

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