inventive vs ivory-towered

inventive

adj
  • Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes. 

  • Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing. 

  • Purposefully fictive 

ivory-towered

How often have the words inventive and ivory-towered occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )