exhilaration vs sadness

exhilaration

noun
  • The state of being enlivened, cheerful or exhilarated. 

  • The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening. 

sadness

noun
  • The state or emotion of being sad. 

  • An event in one's life that causes sadness. 

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