hypnic vs sedative

hypnic

noun
  • Any sleep-inducing drug. 

adj
  • That induces sleep. 

sedative

noun
  • An agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep. 

adj
  • Calming, soothing, inducing sleep, tranquilizing 

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