anything vs nothing

anything

pron
  • Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; a thing of any kind; something or other. 

  • Expressing an indefinite comparison. 

adv
  • In any way, any extent or any degree. 

noun
  • Someone or something of importance. 

nothing

pron
  • Not any thing; no thing. 

  • An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum. 

noun
  • Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance. 

  • A trivial remark especially in the term sweet nothings. 

  • A nobody (insignificant person). 

How often have the words anything and nothing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )