saccharine

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or relating to sugar; sugary.
• Containing a large or excessive amount of sugar.
• Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy.
• Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid.

Noun

• Something which is saccharine or sweet; sugar.
• Sentimentalism.
• Alternate spelling of saccharin

Origin

• . Saccharum is derived from saccharon, from Ancient Greek σάκχαρον, from Pali sakkharā, from Sanskrit शर्करा, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂.
• A variant of saccharin.