earnest vs obsessed

earnest

adj
  • Intent; focused; showing a lot of concentration. 

  • Serious or honest. 

  • Strenuous; diligent. 

  • Focused in the pursuit of an objective; eager to obtain or do. 

  • Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; important. 

  • Possessing or characterised by seriousness. 

verb
  • To be serious with; use in earnest. 

noun
  • Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness. 

  • Seriousness; reality; actuality (as opposed to joking or pretence) 

  • A sum of money paid in advance as a deposit; hence, a pledge, a guarantee, an indication of something to come. 

obsessed

adj
  • Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession. 

  • Influenced or controlled by evil spirits, but less than possessed in that the spirits do not actually reside in the victim. 

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