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Definition of Sweetness

1. Noun. The taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth.

2. Noun. The property of tasting as if it contains sugar.

3. Noun. A pleasingly sweet olfactory property.

4. Noun. The quality of giving pleasure. "The pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day"

Definition of Sweetness

1. n. The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.

Definition of Sweetness

1. Noun. The condition of being sweet or sugary. ¹

2. Noun. A pleasant disposition; kindness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sweetness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweetness

sweetishly sweetite sweetkin sweetleaf sweetleaf family sweetleafs sweetling sweetlings sweetlips sweetly

sweetmaker sweetmakers sweetmeal sweetmeat sweetmeats sweetness (current term) sweetness and light sweetnesses sweetpea sweetpeas

sweetroot sweetroots sweets sweetshop sweetshops sweetshrub sweetshrubs sweetsmelling sweetsop sweetsop tree

Literary usage of Sweetness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"sweetness and light, says Mr. Arnold, are the peculiar characteristics of ... sweetness and light, answers one of his clerical censors, are excellent things ..."

2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"sweetness RELAXING IN the other senses we have remarked, that smooth things are relaxing. Now it ought to appear that sweet things, which are the smooth of ..."

3. The British Essayists by James Ferguson (1823)
"On sweetness and Delicacy of Style. As there is in some flowers an exquisite scent, and in some fruits a delicious flavour, to express which no language has ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1887)
"Thus a naturally fine voice, of great sweetness, if not of remarkable power, ... She captivated every ear,' savs Dr. Burney, ' by the sweetness and ..."

5. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from by Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, Alexander Chalmers (1824)
"MELLI'FLUENCE. nj A honied How ; a Mow art or practice of making honey; production of sweetness. ... sweetness of sound ; ME'I.ODY. ni [,,. ..."

6. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"I must likewise mention the delight I feel from the ex- sweetness quisite sweetness of his diction, which is pure, simple, ..."

7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"Follow our flesh no more; and that forced opinion, Here is the sweetness of ... Here is the sweetness of Dekker : — No, my dear lady, I could weary stars, ..."

8. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"sweetness and light, says Mr. Arnold, are the peculiar characteristics of ... sweetness and light, answers one of his clerical censors, are excellent things ..."

9. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"sweetness RELAXING IN the other senses we have remarked, that smooth things are relaxing. Now it ought to appear that sweet things, which are the smooth of ..."

10. The British Essayists by James Ferguson (1823)
"On sweetness and Delicacy of Style. As there is in some flowers an exquisite scent, and in some fruits a delicious flavour, to express which no language has ..."

11. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1887)
"Thus a naturally fine voice, of great sweetness, if not of remarkable power, ... She captivated every ear,' savs Dr. Burney, ' by the sweetness and ..."

12. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from by Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, Alexander Chalmers (1824)
"MELLI'FLUENCE. nj A honied How ; a Mow art or practice of making honey; production of sweetness. ... sweetness of sound ; ME'I.ODY. ni [,,. ..."

13. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"I must likewise mention the delight I feel from the ex- sweetness quisite sweetness of his diction, which is pure, simple, ..."

14. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"Follow our flesh no more; and that forced opinion, Here is the sweetness of ... Here is the sweetness of Dekker : — No, my dear lady, I could weary stars, ..."

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