daunting vs saccharine

daunting

noun
  • The act of defeating, overcoming, or overwhelming. 

  • The act of discouraging or intimidating; discouragement, intimidation. 

adj
  • Appearing to be difficult; challenging. 

  • Intimidatingly impressive; awe-inspiring, overwhelming. 

  • Discouraging; inspiring fear. 

saccharine

noun
  • Sentimentalism. 

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”). 

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