obliquity

IPA: ʌbɫˈɪkwɪti

The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation.
(astronomy, by extension, of a planet) Axial tilt.
Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality.
The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism.

Examples of "obliquity" in Sentences

In most of the terms obliquity and mystery are the chief emphasis.
Eyes large and fairly wide apart, with just the faintest hint of Mongol obliquity.
After the funeral, flowers, trees, the natural world in which I sought comfort folded into obliquity.
Cutting through the obliquity, which is formidable, his ever-changing "deadline" will be adjusted if realities on the ground so dictate.
The plane of the equator makes an angle of approximately 23.43 0 with the ecliptic plane; this angle is known as the obliquity of the ecliptic.
The plane of the Ecliptic is inclined to that of the Equinoctial at an angle of 23° 27-1/2 ', and this inclination is called the obliquity of the
Somehow Emin goes beyond; with her, it's as if Warhol and Valerie Solanas were rolled into the same person, but minus his posture of obliquity and spaciness, minus the violent fixity of her political focus.
January 3rd, 2010 at 9: 40 am urgs, was your coinage of the phrase “just a little blimp in time” intentional, or just a Freudian obliquity invoking the “bubble” nature of what our economy has become? change Says: