entity vs perception

entity

noun
  • The state or quality of being or existence. 

  • That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form. 

  • Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts. 

  • An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body. 

  • A spirit, ghost, or the like. 

  • The existence of something considered apart from its properties. 

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