mind-numbing vs mundane

mind-numbing

adj
  • Excessively boring, tedious, or dull; repetitive; of an activity, etc., lacking any interest or variety that might serve as intellectual stimulation. 

mundane

adj
  • Tedious; repetitive and boring. 

  • Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly. 

  • Ordinary; not new. 

  • Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world. 

noun
  • An unremarkable, ordinary human being. 

  • A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group. 

  • The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world. 

  • A person who is not a Satanist. 

How often have the words mind-numbing and mundane occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )