severity vs violence

severity

noun
  • The state of being severe. 

  • The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness. 

violence

noun
  • Physical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering. 

  • Extreme force. 

  • Injustice, wrong. 

  • Widespread fighting. 

verb
  • To subject to violence. 

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