listening vs silence

listening

noun
  • Action of the verb listening 

  • Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language. 

  • 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. 

silence

noun
  • The act of refraining from speaking. 

  • deadly silence 

  • The absence of any sound. 

verb
  • To repress the expression of something. 

  • To suppress criticism, etc. 

  • To block gene expression. 

  • To murder. 

  • To make (someone or something) silent. 

intj
  • Be silent. 

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