What Is Tangentiality and Circumstantial Speech?

Circumstantial speech is more direct than tangential speech in which the speaker wanders and drifts and usually never returns to the original topic, and is far less severe than logorrhea

What is tangentiality speech?

Tangentiality refers to a disturbance in the thought process that causes the individual to relate excessive or irrelevant detail that results in never reaching the essential point of a conversation or the desired answer to a question.

What does circumstantial speech mean?

Circumstantiality. People with circumstantiality, also known as circumstantial thinking, or circumstantial speech, often include excessive irrelevant details in their speaking or writing. They maintain their original train of thought but provide a lot of unnecessary details before circling back to their main point.