English-Portuguese translations for digression

• digressão
  Com isto termino a minha digressão por assuntos internos. This ends my digression into domestic affairs.
  Caros colegas, permitam-me esta digressão: está prestes a nascer um paradoxo. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me this digression. A paradox is being born.
  Estou a fazer uma digressão, mas tivemos precisamente um debate que teve muitas digressões. But I digress - indeed, we have had no shortage of digressions during this debate.

Definition of digression

• An aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing
• The act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing, particularly for rhetorical effect
• A deviancy, a sin or error, an act of straying from the path of righteousness or a general rule
• A deviation, an act of straying from a path
• An elongation, a deflection or deviation from a mean position or expected path

Examples

• The lectures included lengthy digressions on topics ranging from the professors dog to the meaning of life.
• make digression... by way of digression...

Related words

• digress
• digressive
• pasture digression