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askewness

noun

Etymology

From askew + -ness.

  1. derived from *skewH-✻ — “to cover, protect”
  2. derived from scūtum — “a shield”
  3. derived from escu
  4. derived from eschieu
  5. derived from eschu
  6. inherited from skeu
  7. prefixed as askew — “a + skew”
  8. suffixed as askewness — “askew + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being askew.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for askewness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA