altogether vs sheerly

altogether

adv
  • Completely, wholly, or without exception. 

  • With everything included 

  • On the whole; with everything considered. 

  • Intensifier, "without doubt", "clearly" 

noun
  • A state of nakedness. (Especially in the phrase in the altogether) 

sheerly

adv
  • Absolutely; purely; quite. 

  • At a very steep angle; precipitously. 

How often have the words altogether and sheerly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )