emotive vs gripping

emotive

adj
  • Appealing to the emotions. 

  • Expressing an emotion. 

  • Of or relating to emotion. 

noun
  • A word or construct that expresses an emotion. 

gripping

adj
  • Which catches someone's attention; exciting 

noun
  • The act of forming a grip. 

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