lush vs saccharine

lush

adj
  • Thriving; rife; sumptuous. 

  • Juicy, succulent. 

  • Beautiful, sexy. 

  • Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile. 

  • Savoury, delicious. 

  • Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked. 

  • Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant. 

noun
  • Intoxicating liquor. 

  • A drunkard, sot, alcoholic. 

  • A person who enjoys talking about themselves. 

verb
  • To drink (liquor) to excess. 

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 lush and saccharine occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )