intractable vs listening

intractable

adj
  • Difficult to treat (of a medical condition). 

  • Difficult to deal with, solve, or manage. 

  • (of a mathematical problem) Not able to be solved. 

  • Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed. 

  • Stubborn; obstinate. 

listening

adj
  • 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. 

  • Of something or someone that listens. 

noun
  • Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language. 

  • Action of the verb listening 

  • An educational exercise involving listening 

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