denial vs event

denial

noun
  • A disownment or disavowal 

  • An assertion of untruth. 

  • Refusal to believe that a problem exists. 

  • A defense mechanism involving a refusal to accept the truth of a phenomenon or prospect. 

  • Refusal to admit responsibility for wrongdoing. 

  • A refusal or failure to provide or grant something that is requested or desired. 

  • Negationism, denialism of historical facts or accepted interpretation. 

  • The negation in logic. 

event

noun
  • In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway. 

  • A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate. 

  • A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task. 

  • One of several contests that combine to make up a competition. 

  • An occurrence; something that happens. 

  • An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases). 

  • A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space. 

  • An episode of severe health conditions. 

  • A prearranged social activity (function, etc.) 

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