fun vs saccharine

fun

adj
  • Whimsical or flamboyant. 

  • Enjoyable or amusing. 

noun
  • playful, often noisy, activity. 

  • amusement, enjoyment or pleasure 

verb
  • To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of. 

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