designation vs noun

designation

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

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

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

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

noun

noun
  • A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English. 

  • An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied. 

verb
  • To convert a word to a noun. 

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