conception vs perception

conception

noun
  • The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions. 

  • An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design. 

  • The act of conceiving. 

  • The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote. 

  • The state of being conceived; the beginning. 

  • The start of pregnancy. 

  • The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo. 

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