acumen vs perception

acumen

noun
  • Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. 

  • A bony, often sharp, protuberance, especially that of the ischium. 

  • A sharp, tapering point extending from a plant. 

perception

noun
  • Conscious understanding of something. 

  • That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc. 

  • Vision (ability) 

  • The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information. 

  • Acuity 

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