dense vs packed

dense

adj
  • Compact; crowded together. 

  • Opaque; allowing little light to pass through. 

  • Thick; difficult to penetrate. 

  • Obscure, or difficult to understand. 

  • Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. 

  • Having relatively high density. 

  • Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See the Wikipedia article on dense sets for a mathematical definition. 

noun
  • A thicket. 

packed

adj
  • Filled to capacity with people. 

  • Filled with a large number or large quantity of something. 

  • Put into a package. 

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