merriment vs pessimism

merriment

noun
  • A state of enjoyable exuberance. 

  • Playful fun. 

pessimism

noun
  • A general belief that bad things will happen. 

  • The condition of being pessimal. 

  • The doctrine that this world is the worst of all possible worlds. 

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