brooding vs musing

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

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

musing

adj
  • Absorbed in thought; contemplative 

noun
  • thought, meditation, contemplation 

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