Excursus

(n.) A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.

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aberrance, aberrancy, abet, abnormality, abnormity, alienation, amorphism, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, bend, bias, brain damage, brainsickness, branching off, centrifugence, circuitousness, clouded mind, conceit, corner, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, craziness, crook, crosswiseness, crotchet, crotchetiness, curiosity, curve, daftness, decentralization, declination, defectiveness, deflection, deflexure, delusion, dementedness, dementia, departure, deployment, derangement, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, difference, differentness, digression, discursion, disorientation, distortion, distraction, divagation, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversion, division, dogleg, dottiness, double, drift, drifting, eccentricity, errancy, errantry, erraticism, erraticness, erroneousness, error, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fanning, fanning out, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, folie, foment, freakiness, freakishness, furor, hairpin, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, heteromorphism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, illusion, indirection, indirectness, inferiority, insaneness, insanity, instigate, irrationality, irregularity, kink, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, maggot, mania, mannerism, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, misapplication, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mistake, monstrosity, nonconformity, obliqueness, obliquity, oddity, oddness, peccancy, peculiarity, pererration, perversion, pixilation, possession, prodigy, provoke, psychopathy, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, rabidness, raise, rambling, rarity, reasonlessness, self-contradiction, senselessness, separation, set, set on, shattered mind, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, sick mind, sickness, sin, sinfulness, singularity, skew, skewness, slant, slip, splaying, spread, spreading, spreading out, squint, stir up, strangeness, straying, subnormality, superiority, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, teratism, transverseness, trick, turn, turning, twist, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unconventionality, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, unorthodoxy, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, vagary, variation, veer, wandering, warp, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, witlessness, wrong, wrongness, yaw, zigzag