forgetting vs preoccupied

forgetting

noun
  • The mental act by which something is forgotten. 

preoccupied

adj
  • Describing a scientific name that was previously used, a junior homonym. 

  • Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere. 

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