encouragement vs ennui

encouragement

noun
  • Words or actions that increase someone's confidence 

  • Something that incites, supports, promotes, protects or advances; incentive 

  • The feeling of being encouraged 

  • The act of encouraging 

ennui

noun
  • A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression. 

verb
  • To make bored or listless; to weary. 

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