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What is the noun for obliqueness?

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obliquity
  1. The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation. [from 15th c.]
  2. (astronomy) Axial tilt.
  3. Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality. [from 15th c.]
  4. The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism. [from 17th c.]
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  6. Examples:
    1. “I find the combination of analysis and ardent obliquity in these writings very powerfully enabling.”
      “Palmer's obliquity should not be misconstrued as cold blood, his hiddenness as hermeticism.”
      “To obliviate obliquity is to forget all the organs, not just the ear, with their vestibular canals.”
oblique
  1. (geometry) An oblique line.
  2. (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
  3. (grammar) The oblique case.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule, or oblique, at the middle of lines.”
obliquation
  1. The act of becoming oblique; a turning to one side; obliquity.
  2. Deviation from moral rectitude.
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obliqueness
  1. The characteristic of being oblique.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The obliqueness of his reply was enough to leave Georgina with a slender hope that she might still be permitted to return.”
      “The height of the ancient gate was exaggerated even more by the obliqueness of the wall in relation to the horizon.”
      “In the preface, Forrest-Thomson indicates the limitedness of such obliqueness.”
obliques
  1. Collectively, the abdominal muscles responsible for rotation of the trunk.
  2. plural of oblique
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  4. Examples:
    1. “If anything, twisting will increase the size of your obliques, and make your love handles more pronounced.”
      “This exercise strengthens the obliques, quadratus lumborum, back extensors, gluteals, adductors and core abdominal muscles.”
      “On many bodybuilding champions, you don't see the lower-lat attachments, the obliques and how the erectors flow down the lower back.”
obliquenesses
obliquities
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