designation vs lexeme

designation

noun
  • That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation. 

  • Selection and appointment for a purpose or office; allotment; direction. 

  • signification, meaning, for example of a word or phrase. 

  • An act or instance of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication. 

lexeme

noun
  • The word-form chosen to represent such a set or family. 

  • The set itself; a lexemic family. 

  • The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set. 

  • An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token). 

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