OBLIQUITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being deceptive

Synonyms:

deceptiveness; obliquity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("obliquity" is a kind of...):

dishonesty (the quality of being dishonest)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "obliquity"):

meretriciousness; speciousness (an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility)

Derivation:

oblique (indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading)

Meaning:

The presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle

Synonyms:

asynclitism; obliquity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("obliquity" is a kind of...):

abnormalcy; abnormality (an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies)

Holonyms ("obliquity" is a part of...):

childbed; confinement; labor; labour; lying-in; parturiency; travail (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child)