indirection

An indirect action or process.

Noun

  1. An indirect action or process.
  2. A lack of direction; deviousness or aimlessness.
    • In your case, I fear, confession is exploitation by indirection, profit-making by ruse, self-aggrandizement at the expense of God. - 1907 September, Jack London, “A Day’s Lodging”, in Love of Life and Other Stories, New...
  3. Use of a variable or object through its address.

Origin

From indirect + -ion, modeled on direction.

Forms

indirections