animation vs verve

animation

noun
  • The act of animating, or giving life or spirit. 

  • Activities offered by a holiday resort encompassing activities that include movement, joy, leisure and spectacle, such as games, sports, shows, events, etc. 

  • The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness 

  • conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category 

  • The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics; the object (film, computer game, etc.) so produced 

  • The condition of being animate or alive. 

verve

noun
  • Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing. 

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