brooding vs comforting

brooding

adj

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

noun

  • A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods. 

comforting

noun

  • The act of giving comfort. 

adj

  • Giving comfort. 

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