perception vs sensitivity

perception

noun
  • The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information. 

  • 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) 

  • Conscious understanding of something. 

  • Acuity 

sensitivity

noun
  • The quality or state of being sensitive; sensitiveness. 

  • The degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal. 

  • The degree of response of a film etc. to light of a specified wavelength. 

  • The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli. 

  • Vulnerability to medical treatment: Synonym of susceptibility. 

  • The probability, in a binary classification test, of a true positive being correctly identified. 

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