obliquidade
Portuguese, noun
obliquidade is spelled O-B-L-I-Q-U-I-D-A-D-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 84,550th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Obliquidade is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “obliquity; obliqueness (the quality of being oblique)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a diaeresis, obliqüidade is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. With an accent, obliqùidade is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1920) of obliquidade”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “característica ou posição do que é oblíquo”.
What does obliquidade mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineobliquity; obliqueness (the quality of being oblique)
- 2
feminineobliquity (moral deviation)
- 3
femininecircumlocution (indirect way of speaking)
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1990 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of obliquidade; may still occur as a sporadic misspelling
noun
- 1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1920) of obliquidade
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. característica ou posição do que é oblíquo
noun: 1. vide obliquidade
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of obliquidade
- obliqüidade alternative
- obliqùidade alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to obliquidade
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is obliquidade in Portuguese?
obliquidade appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).