emergency vs perplexity

emergency

noun
  • Arising from or used in an emergency. 

  • A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention. 

  • An individual brought in at short notice to replace a member of staff, a player in a sporting team, etc. 

  • The department of a hospital that treats emergencies. 

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