hysterical vs suicidal

hysterical

adj
  • Having, or prone to having hysterics. 

  • Of, or arising from hysteria. 

  • Provoking uncontrollable laughter. 

suicidal

adj
  • Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide. 

  • Extremely reckless. 

  • Highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part. 

  • Pertaining to suicide. 

noun
  • Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves. 

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