Obliqueness

o·blique  (-blk, -blk)

adj.

1.

a. Having a slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined.

b. Mathematics Designating geometric lines or planes that are neither parallel nor perpendicular.

2. Botany Having sides of unequal length or form: an oblique leaf.

3. Anatomy Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal: oblique muscles or ligaments.

4.

a. Indirect or evasive: oblique political maneuvers.

b. Devious, misleading, or dishonest: gave oblique answers to the questions.

5. Not direct in descent; collateral.

6. Grammar Designating any noun case except the nominative or the vocative.

n.

1. An oblique thing, such as a line, direction, or muscle.

2. Nautical The act of changing course by less than 90°.

adv. (-blk, -blk)

At an angle of 45°.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin oblquus.]

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o·bliquely adv.

o·bliqueness n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	obliqueness - the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle spatial property, spatiality - any property relating to or occupying space
	2.	obliqueness - the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly deviousness indirectness - having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal