divarication
121aberration — n 1. deviation, divergence, departure, divarication, divagation, digression, declination, declension; lapse, irregularity, incongruity; waywardness, aberrance, aberrancy; wandering, straying, rambling, deviating, diverging, departing, divagating …
122anomaly — n 1. deviation, aberration, aberrance, aberrancy, divergence, digression, departure, divagation, divarication, Rare. anomalism; abnormality, abnormity, irregularity, variation. 2. nonconformist, deviate, deviant, deviator, radical, heretic,… …
123bend — v 1. flex, bow, crook, twist, contort; curve, turn, swerve, veer, deviate, divagate, deflect, diverge; circle, coil, curl, spiral, loop; meander, worn, zigzag, wind, wind in and out, sinuate; hook, angle off, shoot off at an angle; arch, vault,… …
124cleavage — n 1. cleaving, splitting, halving, chopping, cutting, slashing; fission, partition, section; cleft, split, slit, fissure, rent, line of division; severance, sunder ance, bisection, bifidity, bifurcation, Obs. dimidiation. 2. division, separation …
125crotch — n fork, bifurcation; corner, angle, bend; divarication, division; groin …
126deflection — n 1. deviation, declination, divagation, divarication, Aeron. drift; divergence, diversion, swerve, bend, curve, crook, twist; refraction, flection, deflexure, refringence. 2.(usu. in a nautical sense) jibe, gybe, yaw, shift, sheer; slew, slue,… …
127digression — n 1. maundering, descanting, being diffuse, being episodic, rhapsodizing, waxing long winded, circumlocution, going off on or at a tangent, beating around the bush; (all of writing or speaking) deviating, divagating, deflecting, diverging,… …
128divergence — n 1. spreading, spreading apart, coming apart, opening, opening up, radiating, flying off, divaricating, forking, parting, branching off; dividing, separating, subdividing, ramifying, disuniting, divorcing; severing, dissevering, cleaving, riving …
