how to pronounce obliquity

/əˈblɪkwɪti/

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obliquity is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of obliquity in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… the obliquity if we didn't have a moon …”

meanings of obliquity

noun:

Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality.
Axial tilt.
The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism.
The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation.

obliquity frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word obliquity occurs in english on average 0.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics obliquity can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that obliquity can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;