obliquity

Other forms of obliquity

plural

obliquities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about obliquity

What does obliquity mean?

obliquity means "the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obliquity?

obliquity has 4 syllables: o-bliq-ui-ty. The stress falls on "bliq".

What is another word for obliquity?

Close synonyms include asynclitism, deceptiveness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is obliquity a common word?

obliquity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.