[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.
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To disobey [God] . . . imports a moral obliquity.
--South.
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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]