Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being sweet, in any sense.
Wiktionary
- n. The condition of being sweet or sugary.
- n. A pleasant disposition; kindness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of giving pleasure
- n. a pleasingly sweet olfactory property
- n. the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
- n. the property of tasting as if it contains sugar
Etymologies
- sweet + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“III. ii.25 (69,1) tun'd too sharp in sweetness] -- and _too sharp in sweetness_,] So the folio and all modern editions; but the quarto more accurately,”
“Nonconformists in walking staunchly by the best light they have, and desire to take no whit from it, we seek to add to this what we call sweetness and light, and develope their full humanity more perfectly; and to seek this is certainly not to be the enemy of the”
“To get rid of one's ignorance, to see things as they are, and by seeing them as they are to see them in their beauty, is the simple and attractive ideal which Hellenism holds out before human nature; and from the simplicity and charm of this ideal, Hellenism, and human life in the hands of Hellenism, is invested with a kind of aërial ease, clearness, and radiancy; they are full of what we call sweetness and light.”
“Their sweetness is like the sweetness of bread, and to have discovered this palatableness in this neglected nut, the whole world is to me the sweeter for it.”
Checking in on Thoreau: arguing about John Brown and finding friends in windfall acorns
“The finished sauce has a nice tang to it and a good amount of sweetness from the cranberry sauce.”
“But sweetness is what makes it dessert instead of a pleasant side dish, so sugar is really a key ingredient.”
“It's similar in sweetness to what you'll find from the high-volume producers, but we think it's much crisper and carries more structure.”
“The first couple of sips reveal a malty taste with a decent amount of the sweetness from the nose returning.”
“On the palate, its gentle sweetness is balanced beautifully by lively acidity, with pineapple and peach flavors accented by a squirt of lime juice and an interesting ginger-spice note.”
“Round and homely, but for an instant I thought there was a certain sweetness to it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sweetness’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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The sweetest thing.
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down!
sugary, sweetness, fragrant, cloying, saccharine, honey, luscious, nectar, pudding, pastry, bittersweet, cupcake and 44 more...
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Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Or honey, or baby, or ...
(A Valentine's Day list.)amoret, bonnilasse, ladybird, leikin, leman, love-lass, Phyllis, pout, sweetness, munchkin, darling, sayang and 87 more...
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Most of the Nouns from Joanna Newsom'...
meadowlark, sparrow, spree, pharoah, pharisees, comb, meadow, pines, marrow, bones, birches, spires and 95 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Tulip Names I
No rhyme or reason other than that I like the names. :-) For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names II: You Know ...abbey dream, abbey road, abodement, abra, abra elite, academician tstisin, acapulco, ace of diamonds, acropolis, ad hoc, adamo, addis and 597 more...
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punnything's Words
existentialist, configure, numismatist, autumnal, desist, ennui, taciturn, vacillate, naivete, bloodletting, tete-a-tete, concentric and 274 more...
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Speaking in Tongues - an REM list
Words heard in various REM songs that I enjoy and that I think are indicative of the band. Not too literally, of course.
pilgrimage, pageant, suspicion, penitence, gentlemen, chronic, stigma, deadlier, transit, fortunate, momentum, misconstrued and 162 more...
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How I feel about you:
The sound of my name spoken by your lips... I need a word for that.
love, lust, secret, honey, milky, touch, flesh, skin, neptune, kiss, wet, taste and 82 more...
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oh dear
terms of endearment - this list is rated X.
( personal list, randomness )
also see:
sweetie pants, big mamma biscuit, sugar pants, cheese tits, honey poo, pussy lips, snuggly poo, sweetpea, sugar tits, fuck puppet, sex slave, sleepy head and 44 more... -
beautiful words.
the, known, universe, connection, touch, possibility, cataclysm, revolution, circumvolution, evolution, logic, winter and 71 more...
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Adrienne's Words
ekphrasis, aubade, jamais vu, polyptoton, mise en place, inferno, deus ex machina, semaphore, malapropism, neologism, clivus, sella turcica and 17 more...
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sweet nothings.
sweet names to sicken thy lover.
precious, sweetness, lovely, darling, cupcake, buttercup, honey bun, kitten, bunny, minx, kid, wanton and 52 more...
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Pet names for my cat
poodles, sweetpea, sweetness, baby, furball, fluffer, fluff, fluffy, precious, fuzzy
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sunsister's Words
family, propel, sling, bring, sweetness, reach, forward, process
Tweets
Looking for tweets for sweetness.

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