cohesion vs connection

cohesion

noun
  • State of cohering, or of working together. 

  • Grammatical or lexical relationship between different parts of the same text. 

  • Growing together of normally distinct parts of a plant. 

  • Various intermolecular forces that hold solids and liquids together. 

  • Degree to which functionally related elements in a system belong together. 

connection

noun
  • Coherence; lack of disjointedness 

  • A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people. 

  • sexual intercourse 

  • A kinship relationship between people. 

  • An individual who is related to oneself, through either family or business. 

  • A drug dealer. 

  • The description for a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences. 

  • The point at which two or more things are connected. 

  • A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service 

  • A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty. 

  • An established communications or transportation link. 

  • The act of connecting. 

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