melting vs saccharine

melting

adj
  • Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful. 

  • Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying. 

  • That causes one to melt with emotion; able to make others feel tender and emotional. 

noun
  • The act of softening or mitigating. 

  • The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point. 

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