brooding vs expressive

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

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

expressive

adj
  • Effectively conveying thought or feeling. 

noun
  • Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent. 

  • A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone. 

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