obliquity /əˈblɪkwɪti/ noun4 •The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation.The Planet Earth, so stedfast though she seem, / Insensibly three different Motions move? / Which else to several Sphears thou must ascribe, / Mov'd contrarie with thwart obliquities — 1667 •Axial tilt. •The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism. •Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality. formsobliquities