as in ambiguity
the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning
her poetry is sure to satisfy those readers who readily confuse obliquity with profundity
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Recent Examples of obliquity
The key players in these cycles are Earth's obliquity, the precession of its rotational axis and the shape of Earth's orbit around the sun.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
The angle this line makes to the ecliptic plane, which is the plane of the solar system in which all the planets orbit, is the obliquity.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
The angle this line makes to the ecliptic plane, which is the plane of the solar system in which all the planets orbit, is the obliquity.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
Because of these wobbles, Earth’s obliquity isn’t perfectly fixed.
—Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
So how do obliquity variations affect the seasons on a planet?
—Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
Earth’s tilt, which is scientifically known as obliquity, is known to vary between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees on a cycle that lasts about 41,000 years.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2023
The second cycle is related to gradual changes in the Earth’s inclination, or obliquity.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
This might suggest that a truer study of the psyche and its place in the world could be conducted via indirection or obliquity.
—Matthew Bevis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
The angle this line makes to the ecliptic plane, which is the plane of the solar system in which all the planets orbit, is the obliquity.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
The angle this line makes to the ecliptic plane, which is the plane of the solar system in which all the planets orbit, is the obliquity.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2025
Because of these wobbles, Earth’s obliquity isn’t perfectly fixed.
—Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
So how do obliquity variations affect the seasons on a planet?
—Gongjie Li, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
Earth’s tilt, which is scientifically known as obliquity, is known to vary between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees on a cycle that lasts about 41,000 years.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Aug. 2023
The second cycle is related to gradual changes in the Earth’s inclination, or obliquity.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2022
This might suggest that a truer study of the psyche and its place in the world could be conducted via indirection or obliquity.
—Matthew Bevis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obliquity
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Be sure to make these documents easy to access and refer to for reference, which will reduce ambiguity and misinterpretations.—
Liz Guthridge,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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This spring, the London theatre shimmers with this kind of ambiguity—real king, false king, portrait, mirror.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Obliquity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obliquity. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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