incurable vs privative

incurable

adj
  • Irremediable, incorrigible. 

  • Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless. 

noun
  • One who cannot be cured. 

privative

adj
  • consisting in the absence of something; negative 

  • causing privation; depriving 

  • indicating the absence of something 

noun
  • something that causes privation or indicates an absence 

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