listening vs self-willed

listening

noun
  • Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language. 

  • Action of the verb listening 

  • An educational exercise involving 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. 

self-willed

adj
  • Possessing self-will; determined to pursue one's own desires or adhere to one's own opinion.. 

  • Obstinate; strong-minded; unyielding to the desires, concern or opinions of others. 

  • He was so self-willed that he refused to do anything that did not grant instant satisfaction or direction. 

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