sympathy vs variance

sympathy

noun
  • 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. 

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

variance

noun
  • A discrepancy between two legal documents. 

  • A departure from a cause of action originally in a complaint. 

  • An official permit to do something that is ordinarily forbidden by regulations. 

  • The act of varying or the state of being variable. 

  • The state of differing or being in conflict. 

  • The number of degrees of freedom in a system. 

  • Covariance and contravariance generally. 

  • A difference between what is expected and what is observed; deviation. 

  • The second central moment in probability. 

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