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prettygoodwordobliquity (ob-LIK-wi-tee) - n., the state of being oblique; the state of being mentally or morally divergent.
The latter being a metaphoric extension by replacing divergent from the orthogonal with from the orthodox. Can also be used for an instance of either sense. Used since around 1400, borrowed from Middle French obliquité, from Latin oblīquitās, from oblīquus + a nominalizing suffix.
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The latter being a metaphoric extension by replacing divergent from the orthogonal with from the orthodox. Can also be used for an instance of either sense. Used since around 1400, borrowed from Middle French obliquité, from Latin oblīquitās, from oblīquus + a nominalizing suffix.
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