obliquity

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation.
2. (broadly, countable, uncountable) Axial tilt.
3. (countable, uncountable) Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality.
4. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism.

Synonyms

obliqueness

crookedness

slant

asynclitism

duplicity

deceptiveness

skew

disingenuousness

divergency

double-dealing

error

falseness

fault

flexure

cant

inclination

indirection

knavery

lean

leaning

lopsidedness

perversity

shelving

tilt

unfairness

wryness

turning aside

going obliquely

heeling

deceit

declivity

deflection

delinquency

deviousness

dip

Translations

Schiefe

oblicuidad

obliquità

obliquidade

λόξα

obliqüitat

υπουλότητα

obliquité

Schiefheit

Unregelmäßigkeit

λοξότητα

Sittenlosigkeit

πλαγιότης

πλαγιότητα

λοξότης

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈblɪkwɪti/

Etymology

From Middle French obliquité, from Latin oblīquitās, from oblīquus (“oblique”). Corresponding to oblique + -ity.