anxiogenic vs frightening

anxiogenic

adj
  • Causing anxiety, or pertaining to the causing of anxiety. 

noun
  • An anxiogenic drug: a drug that causes anxiety. 

frightening

adj
  • Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary. 

  • Awful, terrible, very bad. 

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