Definition of "digressiveness" [digressiveness]

• The quality or state of being digressive. (noun)

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• "I attribute this dubious behavior to reading the blog work of one anapestic, whose digressiveness charming is pretty much boundless, allowing me to mentally brush off my own as minor league."
• ""Portrait of Dante," "Washers of the Shroud," "Under the Old Elm" (with its noble tribute to Washington) and "Stanzas on Freedom," It is a pity that such poems, all of which contain memorable lines, should be kept from the wide audience they deserve, and largely because of the author's digressiveness."
• "We write, therefore, with correspondent carelessness or digressiveness, upon incidents that, in passing, have merely amused us — quite prepared to find that they are not so amusing (at second-hand) to others."