damaging vs hurtful

damaging

adj

  • Harmful; injurious; causing damage. 

noun

  • An act of causing damage. 

hurtful

adj

  • Tending to impair or damage; injurious; occasioning loss or injury. 

  • Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting. 

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