OBLIQUENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does obliqueness mean? 

• OBLIQUENESS (noun)
  The noun OBLIQUENESS has 2 senses:

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

2. the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly

  Familiarity information: OBLIQUENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBLIQUENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("obliqueness" is a kind of...):

spatial property; spatiality (any property relating to or occupying space)

Derivation:

oblique (slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

deviousness; obliqueness

Hypernyms ("obliqueness" is a kind of...):

indirectness (having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal)

Derivation:

oblique (indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading)