conceit vs perception

conceit

noun
  • Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy. 

  • A novel or fanciful idea; a whim. 

  • The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension. 

  • Design; pattern. 

  • Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris. 

  • An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. 

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 conceit and perception occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )