exceptional vs non-gradable

exceptional

adj
  • Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity. 

  • Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence. 

  • Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare. 

noun
  • An exception, or something having an exceptional value 

non-gradable

adj
  • (of an adjective) Describing a quality that cannot normally be varied because it is extreme (e.g. freezing), absolute (e.g. dead), or classification (e.g. nuclear). 

  • That cannot be graded. 

noun
  • Any adjective that is not gradable. 

How often have the words exceptional and non-gradable occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )