The act of detracting something, or something detracted; taking away; diminution.
A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.
The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.
The property of being skew.
A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable; is the third standardized moment, defined as scriptstyle 𝛾₁=(𝜇₃)/(𝜎³),! where 𝜇₃ is the third moment about the mean and 𝜎 is the standard deviation.