saccharine vs sweets

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”). 

sweets

noun
  • A term of endearment; sweetheart. 

  • drugs, amphetamine 

  • Confectionery, candy. 

  • flowers, sweet-scented. 

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