feels vs touchy-feely

feels

adj
  • Synonym of emotional 

noun
  • Feelings, emotions 

touchy-feely

adj
  • Appealing to emotion, sympathy, or romance. 

  • Having a fondness for physical contact with other people, especially to an excessive degree. 

  • Driven by intuition or emotion, with a connotation of de-emphasis of rational thought or logic. 

How often have the words feels and touchy-feely occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )