assets vs substance

assets

noun
  • Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts. 

  • The left side of a balance sheet. 

  • Private parts; a woman's breasts or buttocks, or a man's genitalia. 

  • Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts. 

  • Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it. 

substance

noun
  • Material possessions; estate; property; resources. 

  • Physical matter; material. 

  • Hypostasis. 

  • Drugs (illegal narcotics) 

  • Substantiality; solidity; firmness. 

  • The essential part of anything; the most vital part. 

  • A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. 

verb
  • To give substance to; to make real or substantial. 

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