mindless vs privative

mindless

adj
  • Showing a lack of forethought or sense. 

  • Having no sensible meaning or purpose. 

  • Heedless. 

  • Overly repetitive and unchallenging. 

  • Lacking a mind. 

privative

adj
  • indicating the absence of something 

  • causing privation; depriving 

  • consisting in the absence of something; negative 

noun
  • something that causes privation or indicates an absence 

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