nice vs sympathetic

nice

adj
  • Of a person: friendly, attractive. 

  • Pleasant, satisfactory. 

  • Respectable; virtuous. 

  • Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle. 

  • Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite. 

  • Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly 

intj
  • Used to signify approval. 

  • Used to signify a job well done. 

verb
  • To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority. 

adv
  • Nicely. 

noun
  • niceness. 

sympathetic

adj
  • Attracting the liking of others. 

  • A supernatural connection or power resulting from two items having the same form or some other correspondence. 

  • Designed in a sensitive or appropriate way. 

  • Relating to musical tones produced by sympathetic vibration or to strings so tuned as to sound by sympathetic vibration. 

  • Showing approval of or favor towards an idea or action. 

  • Relating to or denoting the part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves arising from ganglia near the middle part of the spinal cord, supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands, and balancing the action of the parasympathetic nerves. 

  • Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association. 

  • Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy. 

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