perplexity vs surprise

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. 

surprise

noun
  • Something unexpected. 

  • The feeling that something unexpected has happened. 

verb
  • To attack unexpectedly. 

  • To take unawares. 

  • To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise. 

  • To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected. 

  • To undergo or witness something unexpected. 

  • To cause surprise. 

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