brooding vs pithy

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

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

pithy

adj
  • Concise and meaningful. 

  • Of, like, or abounding in pith; spongy or having small holes or pits. 

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