brooding vs lost in thought

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

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

lost in thought

adj
  • Being preoccupied with one's thoughts rather than paying attention to reality. 

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