awareness vs perception

awareness

noun
  • The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer. 

  • The state or quality of being aware of something. 

perception

noun
  • 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) 

  • Conscious understanding of something. 

  • The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information. 

  • Acuity 

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