Synonyms:
digression, excursion
Meaning: wandering from the main path of a journey
Synonyms:
diversion, deviation, digression, deflection, deflexion, divagation
Meaning: a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal"
Synonyms:
digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis
Meaning: a message that departs from the main subject
Usage examples
But this is a digression
I return now from this digression.
But what a syntactical digression!
I crave pardon for this digression.
I am afraid that this is a digression.
But I will now return to that part of my history whence I made the present digression.
I hope this digression, as it was in a manner needful, will be excused. I shall now proceed.
I make no apology for this digression, especially as this is an introduction which all young people and those who never like to think (and it is a bad habit) will naturally skip.
This method of speaking in italics may be striking and artless; but it often becomes obscure and trivial; the habit is dangerous, and one should use this difficult digression only before intimate friends.
The first degree of digression is the parenthesis; provided it is short, natural, and seldom repeated; and that you take care to announce it always; and finally, in order not to abuse it, you should make a skilful use of it.