soothing vs soporific

soothing

adj
  • Tending to soothe. 

  • Giving relief. 

  • Freeing from fear or anxiety. 

noun
  • The act by which somebody is soothed. 

soporific

adj
  • Tending to induce sleep. 

  • Boring, dull. 

noun
  • Something boring or dull. 

  • Something inducing sleep, especially a drug. 

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