belief vs perplexity

belief

noun
  • Mental acceptance of a claim as true. 

  • Religious faith. 

  • One's religious or moral convictions. 

  • The quality or state of believing. 

  • Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered. 

  • Something believed. 

perplexity

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

  • Something that perplexes. 

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

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