brooding vs wistful

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

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

wistful

adj
  • Sad and thoughtful. 

  • Full of longing or yearning. 

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