goodwill vs sympathy

goodwill

noun
  • A favorably disposed attitude toward someone or something. 

  • A concept used to refer to the ability of an individual or business to exert influence within a community, club, market or another type of group, without having to resort to the use of an asset (such as money or property), either directly or by the creation of a lien. 

  • The value of a business entity not directly attributable to its tangible assets and liabilities. This value derives from factors such as consumer loyalty to the brand. 

sympathy

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

  • 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. 

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

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