obliquity

  1. Noun.  The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; (non-gloss definition, or) the angle created by such a deviation. (defdate, from 15th c.) .
  2. Noun.  Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality. (defdate, from 15th c.) .
  3. Noun.  The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism. (defdate, from 17th c.) .

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