agreeable vs eristic

agreeable

noun
  • Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable. 

adj
  • Pleasant to the senses or the mind. 

  • Agreeing or suitable; followed by to, or rarely by with. 

  • Pursuant, conformant, accordant. 

  • Able to agree; possible to be agreed. 

eristic

noun
  • One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious. 

  • A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest. 

adj
  • Provoking strife, controversy or discord. 

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