A turn of thought; an act of moving away from the subject under discussion; a digression.
The action of (rapidly) moving to and fro, or from place to place; an instance of this.
The process or faculty of moving from one concept to another in a coherent manner; reasoned argument or thought. Also more fully "discursion of the mind (also judgement,etc.)".
a temporary departure from the main subject; a digression
some people will be bored by these discursions, but they're the best part of the movie
Mann's discursions are fascinating but the quality is uneven
a welter of relentlessly informative discursion
reasoned argument or thought; discourse
he urged the group of protesters to resolve the matter through discursion with the university administration