serious vs strange

serious

adj
  • Really intending what is said (or planned, etc); in earnest; not jocular or deceiving 

  • Committed. 

  • Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition 

  • Important; weighty; not insignificant 

adv
  • In a serious manner; seriously. 

strange

adj
  • Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience. 

  • Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar. 

  • Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary. 

  • Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness. 

  • Not belonging to one. 

  • Of an attractor: having a fractal structure. 

noun
  • Sex outside of one's current relationship. 

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