noncommittal vs privative

noncommittal

adj
  • Tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or show one's feelings or opinion. 

noun
  • Failure to commit to a decision or course of action. 

  • A voter etc. who has not yet committed to a decision. 

privative

adj
  • consisting in the absence of something; negative 

  • causing privation; depriving 

  • indicating the absence of something 

noun
  • something that causes privation or indicates an absence 

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