obliquity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle
    asynclitism.
  2. noun the quality of being deceptive
    deceptiveness.

WordNet

Ob*liq"ui*ty noun
Etymology
L. obliquitas: cf. F. obliquité.
Wordforms
plural Obliquities
Definitions
  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.
  2. Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation from moral rectitude.
    To disobey [God]...imports a moral obliquity. South.

Webster 1913