attractive vs saccharine

attractive

adj
  • Having the power of charming or alluring by agreeable qualities; enticing. 

  • Causing attraction; having the quality of attracting by inherent force. 

  • Pleasing or appealing to the senses, especially of a potential romantic partner. 

saccharine

adj
  • Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy. 

  • Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid. 

  • Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”). 

noun
  • Sentimentalism. 

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