brooding vs sensitive

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

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

sensitive

adj
  • Easily offended, upset, or hurt. 

  • Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses. 

  • Responsive to stimuli. 

  • Important, intricate, and requiring great delicacy. 

  • Capable of offending, upsetting, or hurting. 

  • Accurate; able to register small changes in some property. 

  • Meant to be concealed or kept secret. 

noun
  • A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive. 

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