ameliorative vs wholesome

ameliorative

adj
  • Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation. 

  • Of or relating to conceptual engineering, the normative study of which conceptual demarcation is most conducive to solve the problems the concept is a priori taken to solve. 

  • Able to repair or ameliorate. 

noun
  • A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation. 

  • That which betters or improves. 

wholesome

adj
  • Promoting moral and mental well-being. 

  • Favourable to morals, religion or prosperity; sensible; conducive to good; salutary; promoting virtue or being virtuous. 

  • Promoting good physical health and well-being. 

  • Marked by wholeness; sound and healthy. 

  • Decent; innocuous; sweet. 

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