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OBLIQUITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being deceptive
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("obliquity" is a kind of...):
dishonesty (the quality of being dishonest)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "obliquity"):
meretriciousness; speciousness (an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility)
Derivation:
oblique (indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle
Synonyms:
asynclitism; obliquity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("obliquity" is a kind of...):
abnormalcy; abnormality (an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies)
Holonyms ("obliquity" is a part of...):
childbed; confinement; labor; labour; lying-in; parturiency; travail (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child)
