Meaning

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

noun the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly

originEtymology tree English oblique Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English obliqueness From oblique + -ness.

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