OBLIQUENESS

deviousness, obliqueness

(noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly

obliqueness

(noun) the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

obliqueness (usually uncountable, plural obliquenesses)

The quality of being oblique.

Synonyms

• obliquity

Source: Wiktionary


Ob*lique"ness, n.

Definition: Quality or state of being oblique.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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