brooding vs harsh

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

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

harsh

adj
  • Severe or cruel. 

  • Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses. 

verb
  • To negatively criticize. 

  • To put a damper on (a mood). 

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