incentive vs muse

incentive

noun
  • Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages. 

  • A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder. 

adj
  • Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating. 

  • Serving to kindle or set on fire. 

muse

noun
  • A source of inspiration. 

  • A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset. 

  • An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness. 

verb
  • To wonder at. 

  • To say (something) with due consideration or thought. 

  • To become lost in thought, to ponder. 

  • To think on; to meditate on. 

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