melancholy vs reflective

melancholy

adj
  • Affected with great sadness or depression. 

noun
  • Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature. 

  • Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies. 

reflective

adj
  • Pondering, especially thinking back on the past. 

  • Involving reflection. 

  • Reciprocal. 

  • That reveals or shows; revealing; indicative of. 

  • That reflects, or redirects back to the source. 

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