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   discursive

   /dɪˈskəːsɪv/

   adjective

   • 1. digressing from subject to subject: "students often write dull, second-hand, discursive prose" Similar ramblingdigressivemeanderingwanderingmaunderingdiffuselonglengthycircuitousroundaboutcircumlocutoryperiphrasticverboselong-windedprolixinformal:wordywafflyrare:pleonasticlogorrhoeicambagiousOpposite concise
   • ▪ (of a style of speech or writing) fluent and expansive: "the short story is concentrated, whereas the novel is discursive" Similar fluentflowingfluideloquentarticulateelegantexpansiveOpposite terse
   • 2. relating to discourse or modes of discourse: "the attempt to transform utterances from one discursive context to another"
   • 3. proceeding by argument or reasoning rather than by intuition. archaic

   Word Origin late 16th century: from medieval Latin discursivus, from Latin discurs-, literally ‘gone hastily to and fro’, from the verb discurrere (see discourse).

   Derivatives

   • 1. discursively adverb
   • 2. discursiveness noun

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