activity vs energy

activity

noun
  • Something done as an action or a movement. 

  • The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point. 

  • Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion. 

  • The state or quality of being active; activeness. 

  • The number of radioactive decays per unit time. Unit for it: becquerel or curie 

  • The propery of substances to react with other substances 

energy

noun
  • The impetus behind all motion and all activity. 

  • The capacity to do work. 

  • The external actions and influences resulting from an entity’s internal nature (ousia) and by which it is made manifest, as opposed to that internal nature itself; the aspect of an entity that can affect the wider world and be apprehended by other beings. 

  • An intangible, modifiable force (often characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed in some New Age religions to emanate from a person, place or thing and which is (or can be) preserved and transferred in human interactions; shared mood or group habit; a vibe, a feeling, an impression. (Compare aura.) 

  • A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana. 

  • A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent. 

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