worth vs worthiness

worth

noun
  • Merit, excellence. 

  • Value. 

  • Wealth, fortune, riches, property, possessions. 

  • An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time. 

adj
  • Deserving of. 

  • Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for. 

  • Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating. 

worthiness

noun
  • The state or quality of having value or merit. 

  • The state or quality of being qualified or eligible. 

  • The result or product of having value or merit. 

  • The result or product of being qualified or eligible. 

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