ambiance vs mood

ambiance

noun
  • A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence. 

  • A secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading. 

mood

noun
  • A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling. 

  • A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing. 

  • Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art). 

  • A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality. 

  • A mental or emotional state, composure. 

  • A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something. 

  • A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood. 

intj
  • Used to express that the speaker finds something very relatable. 

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