patience vs shortness

patience

noun
  • Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US and Canada. 

  • The quality of being patient. 

shortness

noun
  • The property of being short or terse. 

  • The property of being short, of being small of stature or brief. 

  • The result or product of being short. 

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