brooding vs solicitous

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

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

solicitous

adj
  • In an anxious or distressed way. 

  • In an eager way. 

  • In a conscientious way, often with kindness. 

  • Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil. 

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