loss vs recognition

loss

noun
  • Defeat; an instance of being defeated. 

  • The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement. 

  • The death of a person or animal. 

  • Something that has been destroyed or ruined. 

  • The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died. 

  • The sum an entity loses on balance. 

  • The destruction or ruin of an object. 

  • Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work. 

recognition

noun
  • A return of the feu to the superior. 

  • Acceptance as valid or true. 

  • Honour, favourable note, or attention. 

  • The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity). 

  • Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country. 

  • The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others. 

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