assistant vs enabler

assistant

noun
  • A person who assists or helps someone else. 

  • A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program. 

  • Sales assistant. 

adj
  • Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. 

  • Having a subordinate or auxiliary position. 

enabler

noun
  • One who or that which helps something to happen. 

  • One who encourages a bad habit in another (typically drug addiction) by their behaviour. 

  • One who gives someone else the power to behave in a certain way. 

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