discontent vs distress

discontent

noun
  • Dissatisfaction. 

  • A longing for better times or circumstances. 

  • A discontented person; a malcontent. 

verb
  • To deprive of contentment; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy. 

adj
  • Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. 

distress

noun
  • A cause of such discomfort. 

  • The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. 

  • Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. 

  • Serious danger. 

  • A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt. 

  • An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt. 

verb
  • To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age. 

  • To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain. 

  • To cause strain or anxiety to someone. 

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