Adjective: discursive di'skur-siv
- (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
"a rambling discursive book";
- digressive, excursive, rambling
- (philosophy) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition
"His discursive approach to ethics relied heavily on logical analysis";
- dianoetic
Encyclopedia: Discursive