sweetness
Plural: sweetnesses
Noun
- the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
- the property of tasting as if it contains sugar
- a pleasingly sweet olfactory property
- the quality of giving pleasure
- "he was charmed by the sweetness of her manner"
- The condition of being sweet (all senses).
- A pleasant disposition; kindness.
- The quality of giving pleasure to the mind or senses, pleasantness, agreeableness.
- A term of address for one's sweetheart.
Examples
- Ruth's overwhelming sweetness made Robert forget about his hopelessly low school grades.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English swetnes, swetnesse, from Old English swētnes (“sweetness”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtinassī (“sweetness”), equivalent to sweet + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian swietens (“sweetness”), obsolete Dutch zoetenis (“sweetness”), Old High German swuoznessi, suoznessi (“sweetness”).
Synonyms
bouquet, fragrance, fragrancy, pleasantness, redolence, sugariness, sweet, dulceness, dulciness, dulcitude, saccharinity, sweetness
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
sweetness: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsweetness: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sweetness: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary