spontaneous vs subliminal

spontaneous

adj
  • Arising from a momentary impulse. 

  • Sudden, without warning. 

  • Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things. 

  • Random. 

  • Done by one's own free choice, or without planning. 

  • Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor. 

  • Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause. 

  • Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint. 

subliminal

adj
  • Of a stimulus: below the limen or threshold of conscious perception, especially if still able to produce a response; also (generally), below the threshold where a response can be produced. 

  • Of an advertisement, a message, etc.: conveyed in a manner that a person is unaware of being influenced by it. 

  • Without directed awareness or thought; subconscious (dated), unconscious. 

noun
  • An advertisement, a message, etc., which is conveyed in a manner that a person is unaware of being influenced by it. 

  • Chiefly preceded by the: something which is below the limen or threshold of conscious perception. 

  • Chiefly preceded by the: the subconscious (dated) or unconscious self. 

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