incandescent vs scintillating

incandescent

adj
  • Shining very brightly. 

  • Showing intense emotion, as of a performance, etc. 

  • Emitting light as a result of being heated. 

noun
  • An incandescent lamp or bulb 

scintillating

adj
  • That scintillates with brief flashes of light; sparkling. 

  • Brilliantly or impressively clever, exciting, amusing or witty. 

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