eristic vs nice

eristic

adj
  • Provoking strife, controversy or discord. 

noun
  • One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious. 

  • A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest. 

nice

noun
  • niceness. 

adv
  • Nicely. 

intj
  • Used to signify approval. 

  • Used to signify a job well done. 

verb
  • To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority. 

adj
  • Of a person: friendly, attractive. 

  • Pleasant, satisfactory. 

  • Respectable; virtuous. 

  • Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle. 

  • Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite. 

  • Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly 

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