gnawing vs saccharine

gnawing

noun
  • A sensation of being gnawed. 

  • The process by which something is gnawed. 

adj
  • severe or intense 

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