failure vs negligence

failure

noun
  • State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success. 

  • Omission to do something, whether or not it was attempted, especially something that ought to have been done. 

  • Bankruptcy. 

  • An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success. 

  • Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function; breakdown. 

negligence

noun
  • The state of being negligent. 

  • 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 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 failure and negligence occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )