intricacy vs perplexity

intricacy

noun
  • Perplexity 

  • Something which is intricate or complex. 

  • The state or quality of being intricate or entangled. 

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