saccade vs twitching

saccade

noun
  • A sudden jerking movement. 

  • The sounding of two violin strings together by using a sudden strong pressure of the bow. 

  • A rapid jerky movement of the eye (voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another. 

  • The act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins. 

verb
  • To make a rapid jerking movement to focus elsewhere. 

twitching

noun
  • The motion of something that twitches. 

  • Compulsive birdwatching by people (twitchers) who travel long distances to see rare species. 

adj
  • That twitches. 

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