eristic vs robust

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. 

robust

adj
  • Violent; rough; rude. 

  • Sensible (of intellect etc.); straightforward, not given to or confused by uncertainty or subtlety. 

  • Designed or evolved in such a way as to be resistant to total failure despite partial damage. 

  • Not greatly influenced by errors in assumptions about the distribution of sample errors. 

  • Resistant or impervious to failure regardless of user input or unexpected conditions. 

  • Requiring strength or vigor. 

  • Of an individual or skeletal element: strongly built; muscular; not gracile. 

  • Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy. 

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