sensitive vs stern

sensitive

adj
  • Capable of offending, upsetting, or hurting. 

  • Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses. 

  • Responsive to stimuli. 

  • Easily offended, upset, or hurt. 

  • Important, intricate, and requiring great delicacy. 

  • Accurate; able to register small changes in some property. 

  • Meant to be concealed or kept secret. 

noun
  • A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive. 

stern

adj
  • Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner. 

  • Grim and forbidding in appearance. 

noun
  • A bird, the black tern. 

  • The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog. 

  • The hinder part of anything. 

  • The post of management or direction. 

  • The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel. 

verb
  • To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water. 

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