dullness vs tenseness

dullness

noun
  • The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly. 

  • The quality of being uninteresting; boring; humorless or irksome. 

  • The quality of being slow of understanding things; stupidity. 

  • Lack of interest or excitement. 

  • The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen. 

  • bluntness. 

tenseness

noun
  • A particular vowel or consonant quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages, including English. 

  • The characteristic of being tense. 

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