character vs flavor

character

noun
  • Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty. 

  • Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength. 

  • A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group. 

  • A being involved in the action of a story. 

  • A person or individual, especially one who is unknown. 

  • One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character. 

  • A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene. 

  • A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type. 

  • A written or printed symbol, or letter. 

  • A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma. 

flavor

noun
  • The characteristic quality of something. 

  • One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon). 

  • A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring. 

  • A variety (of taste) attributed to an object. 

  • The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. 

  • A kind or type. 

verb
  • To add flavoring to something. 

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