Excessively sweet or sentimental; artificially or sickeningly sweet in manner, tone, or content. Saccharine behavior or expression lacks genuine feeling and seems artificially sweetened.
From Latin 'saccharum' meaning 'sugar,' related to the artificial sweetener saccharin. Just as saccharin is artificially sweet but lacks the complexity of real sugar, saccharine emotions are artificially sweet but lack genuine depth.
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