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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Synonym of obliquity. uncountable, usually
2. 2
   the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly wordnet
3. 3
   the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

aberrationambagescircumlocutiondeclinationdeflectiondeviation

Etymology

From oblique + -ness.

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