nightmare vs qualm

nightmare

noun
  • Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. 

  • A very bad or frightening dream. 

  • A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis. 

verb
  • To have a nightmare. 

qualm

noun
  • A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc. 

  • A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. 

  • A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness. 

verb
  • To have a sickly feeling. 

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