dereliction vs negligence

dereliction

noun
  • Willful neglect of one's duty. 

  • Land gained from the water by a change of water-line. 

  • The act of abandoning something, or the state of being abandoned. 

negligence

noun
  • The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation. 

  • The state of being negligent. 

  • The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury. 

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