perplexity vs reassurance

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. 

reassurance

noun
  • The act of confirming someone's opinion or impression. 

  • Reinsurance. 

  • The feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled. 

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