arcane vs hidden

arcane

adj
  • Obscure, mysterious. 

  • Understood by only a few. 

  • Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant. 

  • Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand. 

hidden

adj
  • Obscure. 

  • Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent. 

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