tangentiality

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English

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Etymology

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From tangential +‎ -ity.

Noun

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tangentiality (usually uncountable, plural tangentialities)

  1. The quality of being tangential.
  2. (medicine) A mental condition in which one tends to digress from the topic under discussion, especially by word association.