Noun: obliqueness u'bleek-nus
- The property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle
"The obliqueness of the sun's rays in winter reduces their heating effect"
- The quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly
"The obliqueness of his explanation left everyone confused";
- deviousness
Type of: indirectness, spatial property, spatiality
Encyclopedia: Obliqueness