obliquity

That represents Earth’s axial tilt, which astronomers call its obliquity, relative to the plane of its nearly circular orbit around the sun.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2023

Sweeping statements were made about genre and obliquity and readerly expectations.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2019

Then György Kurtag’s “The Answered Unanswered Question,” music on the edge of obliquity that answers nothing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2018

Bishop’s withholding is less a matter of Moore-like modernist obliquity, however, than of the guarded reticence that was her legacy and her means of control.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 26, 2017

The ends of the curved portions may be variously inclined; they may be nearly perpendicular, of various degrees of obliquity, or nearly horizontal.

From Finger Prints by Sir Francis Galton

It has also long caused astronomers to wonder whether Earth’s tilt — arguably a sweet spot between more extreme obliquities — helped create the conditions necessary for life.

From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2023

Interactions with other objects over their lifetimes can change their obliquities, tilting them over slightly or tremendously.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2019

“Large obliquities make stronger tides, and tides make the planet move,” Millholland says.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2019

It seemed to me that I had known the same sort of obliquities among boys in the swapping of jacknives.

From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

"Then why didn't you say so?" complained McGlade, as though impatient of obliquities that had been altogether too apparent.

From Never-Fail Blake by Arthur Stringer