discursiveness
Noun
Meaning
the quality of being discursive
Source: WordNetSynonyms
roundabout
euphemism
verbosity
indirectness
circumlocution
prolixity
verbiage
loquaciousness
diffuseness
periphrasis
tautology
supererogation
long-windedness
obliqueness
garrulousness
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... when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are. Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.
His examiner...said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."