happening vs perdurant

happening

noun
  • Something that happens. 

  • A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation. 

adj
  • Trendy, up-to-the-minute. 

  • Busy, lively; vibrant, dynamic; fashionable. 

perdurant

noun
  • A happening; an entity that only exists partially at any given point in time. 

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