discouraging vs dissuasive

discouraging

noun

  • discouragement 

adj

  • that causes discouragement 

dissuasive

noun

  • That which dissuades; a disincentive. 

adj

  • Tending to dissuade, or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory. 

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