brooding vs emotional

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

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

emotional

adj
  • Appealing to or arousing emotion. 

  • Determined by emotion rather than reason. 

  • Of or relating to the emotions. 

  • Easily affected by emotion. 

  • Readily displaying emotion. 

  • Characterised by emotion. 

noun
  • An emotional person 

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