brooding vs meaning

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

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

meaning

adj
  • Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful. 

  • Having a (specified) intention. 

noun
  • The connotation associated with a word, expression, or symbol. 

  • The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol. 

  • Intention. 

  • The purpose, value, or significance (of something) beyond the fact of that thing's existence. 

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