melancholic vs saccharine

melancholic

noun
  • A person who is habitually melancholy. 

adj
  • Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits. 

  • Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature. 

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