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Discursion
- - The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought.
Discursive
- adjective - (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that"
- proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition
Discursory
- - Argumentative; discursive; reasoning.
Discussant
- noun - a participant in a formal discussion
Discussing
- verb - speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion; "We discussed our household budget"
- to consider or examine in speech or writing; "The author talks about the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'"
Discussion
- noun - an exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it"
- an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased"
Discussive
- - Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter; discutient.
Discutient
- - Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application. -- n. An agent (as a medicinal application) which serves to disperse morbid matter.
Disdainful
- adjective - expressing extreme contempt
- having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy;