giddy vs volatile

giddy

adj
  • Feeling great anger; furious, raging. 

  • Joyfully elated; overcome with excitement or happiness. 

  • Causing or likely to cause dizziness or a feeling of unsteadiness. 

  • Unable to concentrate or think seriously; easily excited; impulsive; also, lightheartedly silly; frivolous. 

  • Of an animal, chiefly a sheep: affected by gid (“a disease caused by parasitic infestation of the brain by tapeworm larvae”), which may result in the animal turning around aimlessly. 

  • Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy. 

  • Moving around something or spinning rapidly. 

verb
  • To make (someone or something) dizzy or unsteady; to dizzy. 

  • To become dizzy or unsteady. 

volatile

adj
  • Quick to become angry or violent. 

  • Explosive. 

  • Temporary or ephemeral. 

  • Variable or erratic. 

  • Fickle. 

  • Whose content is lost when the computer is powered down 

  • Having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value. 

  • Potentially violent. 

  • Evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions. 

noun
  • A variable that is volatile, i.e. has its associated memory immediately updated with any change in value. 

  • A chemical or compound that changes into a gas easily. 

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