ending vs outcome

ending

noun
  • A termination or conclusion. 

  • The last part of something. 

  • The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs"). 

outcome

noun
  • The scoreline; the result. 

  • The anticipated or desired results or evidence of a learning experience (often used in the phrase learning outcomes). 

  • That which is produced or occurs as a result of an event or process. 

  • The result of a random trial. An element of a sample space. 

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