discursive
adjective/dɪˈskɜːsɪv/
/dɪˈskɜːrsɪv/
(formal)- (of a style of writing or speaking) moving from one point to another without any strict structure
- the discursive style of the novel
- Poetry is closer to music than to the more extended and discursive literary forms.
- The meetings were informal, discursive, even gossipy.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from medieval Latin discursivus, from Latin discurs-, literally ‘gone hastily to and fro’, from the verb discurrere, from dis- ‘away’ + currere ‘to run’.
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