Difference between Digressive and Discursive

DIGRESSIVE vs DISCURSIVE: ADJECTIVE

Marked by digression; rambling
Characterized by digressions; rambling.
(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
Of superficial relevance if any

Using reason and argument rather than intuition.
Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
Proceeding to a conclusion through reason rather than intuition.
Covering a wide field of subjects; rambling.
(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
Proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition

Tending to digress; departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression.

Passing over an object, as in running the eye over the parts of a large object of vision.
Passing rapidly from one subject to another; desultory; rambling; digressional.
Relating to the understanding, or the active facility of knowing or of forming conclusions; ratiocinative: opposed to intuitive.

Overlong, Aphoristic, Essayistic, Prolix, Wordy, Degressive, Declining, Downward, Regressive, Excursive, Indirect, Irrelevant, Tangential, Rambling, Discursive

Phenomenological, Semiotic, Didactic, Poetic, Epistemological, Dialogical, Polemical, Essayistic, Performative, Dianoetic, Excursive, Indirect, Logical, Rambling, Digressive

Overlong, Aphoristic, Essayistic, Prolix, Wordy, Degressive, Declining, Downward, Regressive, Excursive, Indirect, Irrelevant, Tangential, Rambling, Discursive

Phenomenological, Semiotic, Didactic, Poetic, Epistemological, Dialogical, Polemical, Essayistic, Performative, Excursive, Dianoetic, Indirect, Logical, Rambling, Digressive

Against this background it becomes easier to appreciate that by far the most common expository digressive elements in the Homeric epics are the similes.
It is set in the present day, and combines a story, which has social, political and love interest, with confessional and digressive writing.
Emeritus Professor, marked throughout by the burly, kindly, aggressive and digressive character of the author.
That form, the digressive or spiraling structure, seems to literally run away from its point.
The large digressive working piston gives a perfect setting and keeps flow pressures low.
Wife of Bath; it is ribald, debunking, racy, digressive, and slightly madcap.
Digressive topic: Should we mark authority relationships more?

Discursive leadership for consensus building in team meetings.
Discursive integration and the reinvention of political journalism.
ANT: Disordered, undigested, incoherent, rambling, inconsequent, inconsecutive, discursive.
Articulation Theory: A Discursive Grounding for Rhetorical Practice.
The Symbolic Representation of Gender: A Discursive Approach.
Discursive illusions in public discourse: Theory and practice.
Finally, it involves discursive reason because it is the concept of an argument, and every argument is an example of discursive reason.
Consequently, the definition of risk is heterogeneous, contradicting and constantly changing set of discursive and non-discursive practices (Kessler 2010).
Discursive confusion over sustainable consumption: A discursive perspective on the perplexity of marketplace knowledge.
Elaborating the discursive contexts of framing: discursive fields and spaces.