interested vs listening

interested

adj
  • Having or showing interest (attention or curiosity). 

  • Having an interest (stake); being a stakeholder; motivated by considerations of self-interest; self-serving. 

  • Owning a share of a company; being a shareholder. 

listening

adj
  • Of something or someone that listens. 

  • Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds. 

  • Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear. 

noun
  • Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language. 

  • Action of the verb listening 

  • An educational exercise involving listening 

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