Obliqueness

Definitions: Obliqueness

Obliqueness

Noun

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

2. The quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly.

Date "obliqueness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references)

Synonym: Obliqueness

Synonym: deviousness (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Obliqueness

English words defined with "obliqueness": circuitous ♦ roundabout. (references)

"Obliqueness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Obliqueness" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Language		Translations for "obliqueness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏ميل (affection, aptness, bent, bevel, cant, disposition, flair, genius, gradient, gust, gusto, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, obliquity, penchant, persuasion, ply, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, readiness, run, sentiment, set, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tip, turn, use, will), ‏إنحراف (aberration, cant, declination, deflection, deflexion, deformity, departure, depravity, deviation, deviousness, divergence, diversion, drift, excursion, immorality, inclination, list, obliquity, perversion, perversity, sheer, sidetrack, swerve, tangency, twist), ‏إلتواء (bow, flection, inflection, reflection, reflexion, torsion, winding). (various references)

Finnish		vinous (bias, distortion, obliquity), viistous (slant). (various references)

French		obliquité (obliquity). (various references)

German		Schrägheit (angle, pitch, slant, slope). (various references)

Hebrew		שפוע (bank, bevel, cant, gradient, incline, rake, rise, slant, slope, splay, tilt, tip), עקיפין (indirectness), אלכסוניות (diagonality, obliquity). (various references)

Italian		obliquità (obliquity). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		斜め . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ななめ, しゃかくせい. (various references)

Manx		tessenid (traverse), stramlaght, scoidey (cant, lean, leaning, list, slope), cammid (crookedness, curvature, wryness). (various references)

Pig Latin		obliquenessay

Romanian		oblicitate (obliquity). (various references)

Spanish		oblicuidad (obliquity, skew, skewness). (various references)

Thai		การลาดเอียง (rake, tip). (various references)

Turkish		yoldan çıkma (obliquity, perversity), sapma (bias, declension, declination, deflection, deflexion, departure, detour, deviation, divagation, drift, excursion, inequality, lapse, obliquity, perversion, refracting, refractive, spread, swing, turn, warp), eğrilik (camber, cast, crookedness, curvature, deviousness, skew, slant, tortuosity, unevenness, warp, wryness), eğiklik (inclination, rake, skew, slant), çarpıklık (cast, crookedness, distortion, irregularity, perversion, skew, tortuosity, warp, wryness). (various references)

Ukranian		скіс (batter, bevel, obliquity, splay), косий напрям (obliquity), конусність (obliquity), відхилення від норми (obliquity, perversion), відхилення від прямої лінії (obliquity, skew), відхилення від прямого шляху (obliquity), нахилення орбіти (obliquity), нахил (bend, bent, cant, declination, droop, hang, inclination, incline, lurch, notion, obliquity, palate, ply, proclivity, propensity, slope, tilt, tip), похиле положення (obliquity). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "obliqueness": obliquenesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "obliqueness" (pronounced 'Ob*lique"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-i-l-n-o-q-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: bluenoses, nebulises, obsequies.
	-3 letters: blueness, bluenose, boneless, ebonises, elusions, nebulise, nebulose, noblesse, nubilose, obelises, obliques, selenous, sensible, sublines.
	-4 letters: bisques, blouses, boluses, bonuses, bosques, ebonies, ebonise, elusion, enisles, ensiles, ensouls, eosines, equines, ileuses, insoles, insouls, lesions, lioness, obelise, oblique, oleines, quinols, seniles, sequels, sequins, silenus, soubise, subline, subsoil.
	-5 letters: belies, bisons, bisque, blouse, bosque.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-e-i-l-n-o-q-s-s-u"
	+2 letters: obliquenesses.
	+5 letters: questionableness.
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