excellent vs normative

excellent

adj
  • Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality. 

  • Having excelled, having surpassed. 

  • Exceptionally good of its kind. 

  • Of higher or the highest quality; splendid. 

normative

adj
  • Of or pertaining to a norm or standard. 

  • Conforming to a norm or norms. 

  • Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm. 

noun
  • A regulation imposed to preserve a norm. 

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