distinctive vs non-gradable

distinctive

adj
  • Distinguishing a particular sense of word. 

  • Distinguished, being distinct in character or position. 

  • Distinguishing, used to or enabling the distinguishing of some thing. 

  • Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things. 

  • Characteristic, typical. 

  • Used to separate clauses in place of stops. 

noun
  • A distinctive thing: a quality or property permitting distinguishing; a characteristic. 

  • A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect. 

  • A distinctive accent. 

non-gradable

adj
  • (of an adjective) Describing a quality that cannot normally be varied because it is extreme (e.g. freezing), absolute (e.g. dead), or classification (e.g. nuclear). 

  • That cannot be graded. 

noun
  • Any adjective that is not gradable. 

How often have the words distinctive and non-gradable occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )