anxiety vs perplexity

anxiety

noun
  • An uneasy or distressing desire (for something). 

  • An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event. 

  • A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression or tightness in the stomach. 

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 anxiety and perplexity occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )