abstention vs usefulness

abstention

noun
  • Non-participation in the political world; as a country avoiding international affairs. 

  • The act of declining to vote on a particular issue. 

  • The act of abstaining or refraining (from). 

usefulness

noun
  • The quality or degree of being useful. 

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