distinctive vs symbolic

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. 

symbolic

adj
  • Implicitly representing or referring to another thing. 

  • Pertaining to a symbol. 

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