Obliqueness vs. Sheerness — What's the Difference?

Having a slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined.

Sheerness () is a town and civil parish beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England. With a population of 11,938, it is the second largest town on the island after the nearby town of Minster which has a population of 21,319.

(Mathematics) Designating geometric lines or planes that are neither parallel nor perpendicular.

Thin, fine, and translucent

(Botany) Having the part on one side of the midrib of a different size or shape than the part on the other side. Used of a leaf.

Completely such, without qualification or exception

(Anatomy) Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal

Free from admixture or adulterants; unmixed

Indirect or evasive

Considered or operating apart from anything else

Devious, misleading, or dishonest

Almost perpendicular; steep

Not direct in descent; collateral.

Almost perpendicularly.

(Grammar) Designating any noun case except the nominative or the vocative.

Completely; altogether.

An oblique thing, such as a line, direction, or muscle.

One that is sheer, such as a curtain.

At an angle of 45°.

(uncountable) The property of being sheer.

The quality of being oblique.

The result or product of being sheer.

Quality or state of being oblique.

The property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle

The quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly