appearance vs manifestation

appearance

noun
  • The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye. 

  • Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient. 

  • The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character. 

  • An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance 

  • A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition. 

  • The way something looks; personal presence 

  • That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality 

  • Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others. 

manifestation

noun
  • The act or process of becoming manifest. 

  • A pattern or logo on a sheet of glass, as decoration and/or to prevent people from accidentally walking into it. 

  • The embodiment of an intangible, or variable thing. 

  • The symptoms or observable conditions which are seen as a result of some disease. 

  • This particular manifestation resembled a young girl crying. 

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