bruising vs lividity

bruising

noun
  • Bruises on a person's skin. 

  • A violent physical attack on a person. 

adj
  • That bruises. 

  • Wearisome, arduous. 

lividity

noun
  • A livid area of skin, such as a bruise, or as is often found on cadavers. 

  • Livor mortis, suggillation. 

  • The state or quality of being livid. 

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