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noun
The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: obliqueness
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Axial tilt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: degeneracy, depravity, perversion, baseness, corruption, defilement, degradation, depravation, depravedness, impurity, iniquity, lewdity, malignity, misdoing, misguilt, obliquity, peccability, pollution, pravity, sin, sinfulness, turpitude, vitiation, wickedness, wrongdoing
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: obscurity
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the quality of being deceptive
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: deceptiveness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dishonesty
Narrower terms: speciousness, meretriciousness
noun
the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: asynclitism
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: abnormality, abnormalcy
History
From Middle French obliquité, from Latin oblīquitās, from oblīquus (“oblique”). Corresponding to oblique + -ity.
Across languages
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
