mystifier vs perplexity

mystifier

noun
  • A situation that is puzzling, or mystifying 

  • A person who obscures or muddles information, making something appear to be a mystery. 

perplexity

noun
  • Something that perplexes. 

  • The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused. 

  • In information theory, a measurement of how well a probability distribution or model predicts a sample. 

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