activist vs operant

activist

noun
  • One who is conspicuously active in carrying out any occupational or professional functions. 

  • One who is politically active in the role of a citizen; especially, one who campaigns for change. 

adj
  • Behaving as an activist. 

operant

noun
  • An operative person or thing. 

  • Any of a class of behaviors that produce consequences by operating (i.e., acting) upon the environment. 

adj
  • That operates to produce an effect. 

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