penetrative vs piercing

penetrative

adj
  • Displaying insight or discrimination; acute; penetrating. 

  • That can or does physically penetrate something; piercing, penetrating. 

  • That can penetrate opposition defences. 

  • Pertaining to sexual activity involving penetration by the penis. 

piercing

adj
  • Appearing to look deeply into; penetrating. 

  • Of sound, loud and sharp; shrill. 

  • Of temperature, extremely cold so that it penetrates through clothing and shelter. 

noun
  • A hole made in the body so that jewellery can be worn through it. 

  • An item of jewellery designed to be fitted through a piercing (sense 2). 

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