Obliquity

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The quality or condition of being oblique.
  • n. A deviation from a vertical or horizontal line, plane, position, or direction.
  • n. The angle or extent of such a deviation.
  • n. A mental deviation or aberration.
  • n. Immoral conduct.
  • n. Obscurity in conduct or verbal expression: "It may be that the candor of contemporary literature creates a nostalgia for indirection, obliquity and deferralā€ ( Anatole Broyard).
  • n. An obscure statement.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence.
  • n. Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation from moral rectitude.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of being oblique.
  • n. Deviation from an intellectual or moral standard.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle
  • n. the quality of being deceptive
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    divergence    irregularity    inclination    error    fault   
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