make-believe vs reality

make-believe

noun
  • The quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not. 

  • The action of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are. 

reality

noun
  • The entirety of all that is real. 

  • The real world. 

  • The state of being actual or real; realness. 

  • An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real. 

  • A real entity, event, or other fact. 

How often have the words make-believe and reality occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )