ambitious vs longing

ambitious

adj
  • Resulting from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition 

  • Very desirous 

  • Hard to achieve. 

  • Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction. 

longing

noun
  • An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire. 

  • The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise 

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