intensely vs sparsely

intensely

adv
  • To an intense degree, extremely. 

  • In an intense manner. 

  • An intensely private man, he kept chit-chat to a minimum. 

sparsely

adv
  • In a scattered or sparse manner; widely apart; thinly. 

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