incisive vs searching

incisive

adj
  • Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression. 

  • Accurate and sharply focused. 

  • Intelligently analytical and concise. 

  • Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument. 

  • Of or relating to the incisors. 

searching

adj
  • Thorough. 

  • Looking over closely; penetrating; severe. 

noun
  • search; hunt 

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