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Obliqueness

Obliqueness \Ob*lique"ness\, n. Quality or state of being oblique.

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obliqueness

n. The characteristic of being oblique.

WordNet
obliqueness
  1. n. the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle

  2. the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly [syn: deviousness]

Usage examples of "obliqueness".

Cyrus Harding, during the descent, had roughly calculated its obliqueness, and consequently the length of the passage, and was therefore led to believe that the outer wall could not be very thick.