closeness vs comparison

closeness

noun
  • The state of being mean or stingy 

  • The shortest path between two vertices in a graph 

  • The state of being close (all senses) 

  • The state of being friends 

  • The state of being secretive 

comparison

noun
  • The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared. 

  • The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts. 

  • An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other. 

  • That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude. 

  • A simile. 

  • With a negation, the state of being similar or alike. 

  • A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe. 

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