darling vs saccharine

darling

adj
  • charming 

  • Dear; cherished. 

noun
  • A kind or sweet person; sweetheart. 

  • An affectionate term of address. 

  • A person or thing very popular with a certain group. 

  • A person who is dear to one. 

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