"obliquity" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /əˈblɪkwɪti/ [UK], /əˈblɪkwɪti/ [US], /oʊˈblɪkwɪti/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-obliquity.wav Forms: obliquities [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French obliquité, from Latin oblīquitās, from oblīquus (“oblique”). Corresponding to oblique + -ity. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|obliquité}} Middle French obliquité, {{uder|en|la|oblīquitās}} Latin oblīquitās, {{suf|en|oblique|ity}} oblique + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} obliquity (countable and uncountable, plural obliquities)
  1. The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  2. (astronomy, by extension, of a planet) Axial tilt. Tags: broadly, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Astronomy Translations ((astronomy) axial tilt): akselin kaltevuus (Finnish), накло́н о́си враще́ния (naklón ósi vraščénija) (Russian)
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  3. Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (mental or moral deviation): простъпка (prostǎpka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), pahe (Finnish), kieroutuneisuus (Finnish), obliquidade [feminine] (Portuguese), просту́пок (prostúpok) [masculine] (Russian), наруше́ние (narušénije) [neuter] (Russian), оши́бка (ošíbka) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-obliquity-en-noun-Ih4CkV3Z Disambiguation of 'mental or moral deviation': 20 13 59 8
  4. The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-obliquity-en-noun-bIiTv2PI
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (quality of being oblique): obliqueness Translations (quality of being oblique): λοξότης (loxótēs) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), полегатост (polegatost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), наклоненост (naklonenost) [neuter] (Bulgarian), obliqüitat [feminine] (Catalan), vinous (Finnish), obliquité [feminine] (French), λοξότητα (loxótita) [feminine] (Greek), obliquidade [feminine] (Portuguese), перекос (perekos) [masculine] (Russian), скос (skos) [masculine] (Russian), косое направле́ние (kosoje napravlénije) (Russian), накло́н (naklón) [masculine] (Russian), у́гол наклона (úgol naklona) (Russian), конусность (konusnostʹ) [feminine] [technology, engineering, physical-sciences, natural-sciences] (Russian)
Disambiguation of 'quality of being oblique': 45 8 1 45 Disambiguation of 'quality of being oblique': 45 8 1 45

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          "text": "She wore glasses which, in humble reference to a divergent obliquity of vision, she called her straighteners, and a little ugly snuff-coloured dress trimmed with satin bands in the form of scallops and glazed with antiquity.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation."
      ],
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        [
          "oblique",
          "oblique"
        ],
        [
          "horizontal",
          "horizontal"
        ],
        [
          "vertical",
          "vertical"
        ]
      ],
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        "uncountable"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Astronomy"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1839 October, J.J. Middleton, “Description of an Astronomical Instrument presented by Raja Ram Sing, of Khota, to the Government of India”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society, volume 8, number 94, page 837:",
          "text": "Calculating by spherical trigonometry, and assuming the same obliquity, I obtain 3 dundas and 40 pulas for the ascensional arc, giving a difference in time of 3 pulas, or about one of our minutes; an error so small, that even were the Indian astronomer aware of its existence he would disregard it, satisfied that the practical purposes which his labours subserve, are, notwithstanding, carried out with sufficient accuracy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Axial tilt."
      ],
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        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "Axial",
          "axial"
        ],
        [
          "tilt",
          "tilt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astronomy, by extension, of a planet) Axial tilt."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a planet"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter II.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Habitually living with the elements and knowing little more of the land than as a beach, or, rather, that portion of the terraqueous globe providentially set apart for dance-houses, doxies and tapsters, in short what sailors call a \"fiddlers'-green,\" his simple nature remained unsophisticated by those moral obliquities which are not in every case incompatible with that manufacturable thing known as respectability.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 404:",
          "text": "Stray's [friends], apt to keep more to the shadows, tended to be practitioners of obliquity—as it quite often came down to, varieties of pimp.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "immorality",
          "immorality"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXV, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
          "text": "That spiked my gun. I could not say anything. I was entirely out of verbal obliquities; to go further would be to lie, and that I would not do; so I simply sat still and suffered,—sat mutely and resignedly there, and sizzled,—for I was being slowly fried to death in my own blushes.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism."
      ],
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          "obscure"
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          "euphemism"
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    }
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      "ipa": "/əˈblɪkwɪti/",
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      ]
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    {
      "sense": "quality of being oblique",
      "word": "obliqueness"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "polegatost",
      "sense": "quality of being oblique",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "полегатост"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "naklonenost",
      "sense": "quality of being oblique",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "наклоненост"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "quality of being oblique",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "obliqüitat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "quality of being oblique",
      "word": "vinous"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "quality of being oblique",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "obliquité"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "loxótita",
      "sense": "quality of being oblique",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "λοξότητα"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "loxótēs",
      "sense": "quality of being oblique",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "λοξότης"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "quality of being oblique",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "obliquidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "perekos",
      "sense": "quality of being oblique",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "перекос"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "skos",
      "sense": "quality of being oblique",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "скос"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kosoje napravlénije",
      "sense": "quality of being oblique",
      "word": "косое направле́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "naklón",
      "sense": "quality of being oblique",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "накло́н"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "úgol naklona",
      "sense": "quality of being oblique",
      "word": "у́гол наклона"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "konusnostʹ",
      "sense": "quality of being oblique",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "technology",
        "engineering",
        "physical-sciences",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "word": "конусность"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(astronomy) axial tilt",
      "word": "akselin kaltevuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "naklón ósi vraščénija",
      "sense": "(astronomy) axial tilt",
      "word": "накло́н о́си враще́ния"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "prostǎpka",
      "sense": "mental or moral deviation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "простъпка"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "mental or moral deviation",
      "word": "pahe"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "mental or moral deviation",
      "word": "kieroutuneisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "mental or moral deviation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "obliquidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prostúpok",
      "sense": "mental or moral deviation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "просту́пок"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "narušénije",
      "sense": "mental or moral deviation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "наруше́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ošíbka",
      "sense": "mental or moral deviation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "оши́бка"
    }
  ],
  "word": "obliquity"
}

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