lost in thought vs preoccupied

lost in thought

adj
  • Being preoccupied with one's thoughts rather than paying attention to reality. 

preoccupied

adj
  • Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere. 

  • Describing a scientific name that was previously used, a junior homonym. 

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