a priori vs impressive

a priori

adj
  • Self-evident, intuitively obvious. 

  • Presumed without analysis. 

  • Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence. 

  • Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages. 

adv
  • In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation. 

impressive

adj
  • Capable of being impressed. 

  • Appealing. 

  • Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress 

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