1. The presentation during labour of the head of the foetus at an abnormal angle
   "The midwife detected obliquity and adjusted the mother's position";
   - asynclitism
    
2. The quality of being deceptive
   "The obliquity of the advertisement misled many consumers";
   - deceptiveness

Derived forms: obliquities

Type of: abnormalcy [US], abnormality, dishonesty

Part of: childbed [archaic], confinement, labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], lying-in, parturiency, travail [literary]

Encyclopedia: Obliquity