gently vs intensely

gently

adv
  • In a gentle manner; to a gentle degree. 

  • Without strong force or quickness: softly, lightly. 

  • From a gentle or high-class family. 

  • Quietly: without much noise or motion. 

intensely

adv
  • To an intense degree, extremely. 

  • In an intense manner. 

  • An intensely private man, he kept chit-chat to a minimum. 

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