arcane vs impenetrable

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. 

impenetrable

adj
  • Opaque; obscure; not translucent or transparent. 

  • Not penetrable. 

  • Incomprehensible; fathomless; inscrutable. 

noun
  • A person not openly given to friendship. 

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