obliquity
Significat (Anglès)
- (countable, uncountable) The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation.
- (broadly, countable, uncountable) Axial tilt.
- (countable, uncountable) Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality.
- (countable, uncountable) The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism.
Conceptes
Sinònims
turning aside
going obliquely
Traduccions
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/əˈblɪkwɪti/
Etimologia (Anglès)
From Middle French obliquité, from Latin oblīquitās, from oblīquus (“oblique”). Corresponding to oblique + -ity.
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