saccharine vs wan

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. 

wan

adj
  • Bland, uninterested. 

  • Pale, sickly-looking. 

  • Dim, faint. 

noun
  • The quality of being wan; wanness. 

  • A girl or woman. 

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