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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle;
[syn: asynclitism, obliquity]

2. the quality of being deceptive;
[syn: deceptiveness, obliquity]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Obliquity \Ob*liq"ui*ty\, n.; pl. Obliquities. [L. obliquitas: cf. F. obliquit['e].] 1. The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator. [1913 Webster] 2. Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation from moral rectitude. [1913 Webster] To disobey [God] . . . imports a moral obliquity. --South. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

obliquity n 1: the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle [syn: asynclitism, obliquity] 2: the quality of being deceptive [syn: deceptiveness, obliquity]