melancholic vs subnormal

melancholic

noun
  • A person who is habitually melancholy. 

adj
  • Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits. 

  • Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature. 

subnormal

noun
  • A person whose abilities are less than normal. 

  • That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal. 

adj
  • denormal 

  • Less than normal. 

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