favourable vs saccharine

favourable

adj
  • Pleasing, encouraging or approving. 

  • Useful or helpful. 

  • Auspicious or lucky. 

  • Convenient or at a suitable time; opportune. 

noun
  • A favourable person 

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