comfort vs sympathy

comfort

noun
  • A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry. 

  • A cause of relief or satisfaction. 

  • Something that offers comfort. 

  • Contentment, ease. 

verb
  • To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to. 

  • To make comfortable. 

sympathy

noun
  • A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. 

  • Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions. 

  • Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting. 

  • The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune. 

  • The ability to share the feelings of another. 

  • Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it. 

  • An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition. 

  • Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude. 

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