clothing vs garment

clothing

noun
  • An act or instance of putting clothes on. 

  • A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. 

  • Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion. 

garment

noun
  • A single item of clothing. 

  • The visible exterior in which a thing is invested or embodied. 

verb
  • To clothe in a garment. 

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