brooding vs maudlin

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

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

maudlin

adj
  • Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; mawkish, self-pitying. 

  • Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness. 

noun
  • Either of two aromatic plants, costmary or sweet yarrow. 

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