Noun
the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented
Source: WordNetForward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction. David Fleming
Pierre Teilhard was a consistent personalist. In his youth he may well have experienced the 'fascination of the impersonal and generalized' and confused them with the universal; but as soon as he began to develop his thought, he made a complete change of direction. Henri de Lubac