tangentiality
English
noun
Definitions
- The quality of being tangential.
- (medicine) A mental condition in which one tends to digress from the topic under discussion, especially by word association.
Etymology
Suffix from English tangential.
Origin
English
tangential
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bitangential English
- equitangential English
- nontangential English
- tangent English
- tangential English
- tangentialize English
- tangentially English
- *teh₂g- Proto-Indo-European