Obliquity

Quick meaning: Obliquity is a noun meaning The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation.

Meaning

The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation.

More Meanings

1. (astronomy, by extension, of a planet) Axial tilt.
2. Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality.
3. The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism.

Example Sentences

The Planet Earth, so stedfast though she seem, / Insensibly three different Motions move? / Which else to several Sphears thou must ascribe, / Mov'd contrarie with thwart obliquities

She wore glasses which, in humble reference to a divergent obliquity of vision, she called her straighteners, and a little ugly snuff-coloured dress trimmed with satin bands in the form of scallops and glazed with antiquity.

Whereas Reef's "friends," business and personal, were mostly no strangers to trouble, nor that complicated to understand, Stray's, apt to keep more to the shadows, tended to be practitioners of obliquity—as it quite often came down to, varieties of pimp.

That spiked my gun. I could not say anything. I was entirely out of verbal obliquities; to go further would be to lie, and that I would not do; so I simply sat still and suffered,—sat mutely and resignedly there, and sizzled,—for I was being slowly fried to death in my own blushes.

Word Forms

• obliquities

Synonyms for obliquity

Depending on context, synonyms include obliqueness, degeneracy, depravity, perversion, baseness, corruption.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deceptiveness, asynclitism, obliqueness, oblongness, slanting, angularness.

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