forte vs soft

forte

noun
  • A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music. 

  • A strength or talent. 

  • The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt. 

adv
  • Loudly. 

adj
  • Loud. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, "f.", to indicate raising the volume of the music. (Abbreviated in musical notation with an f, the Unicode character 1D191.) 

soft

noun
  • A soft sound or part of a sound. 

  • A soft or foolish person; an idiot. 

adj
  • Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non-magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (compare hard) 

  • Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind. 

  • Requiring little or no effort; easy. 

  • Voiced; sonant; lenis. 

  • Voiceless. 

  • Gentle. 

  • Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy. 

  • Low in dissolved calcium compounds. 

  • Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh. 

  • Easily giving way under pressure. 

  • Emulated with software; not physically real. 

  • Not likely to cause addiction. 

  • Not containing alcohol. 

  • Weak in character; impressible. 

  • Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye. 

  • Gentle in action or motion; easy. 

  • Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action. 

  • Effeminate. 

  • Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market. 

  • softcore. 

  • Palatalized. 

  • Not bright or intense. 

  • Physically or emotionally weak. 

  • Foolish. 

  • Agreeable to the senses. 

  • Having a slight angle from straight. 

  • Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows. 

  • Quiet. 

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