sweetness

plural sweetnesses · alternative obsolete sweetnesse

1. The condition of being sweet (all senses).
   1. countableuncountableThe condition of tasting sugary or tasting as if sugary, from either sugar or another sweet-tasting substance.

      Near-synonym: saccharinity

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      At the same time, that pain is soothed by the brain’s perception of sweetness on a totally different area of your taste buds.

      2024 June 6, Brooke Younger, “What Is Swicy, and Why Do You Need It in Your Life?”, in Cozymeal

      Synonyms: saccharinity

   2. countableuncountableA pleasant disposition; kindness.

      Ruth's overwhelming sweetness made Robert forget about his hopelessly low school grades.

   3. countableuncountableThe quality of giving pleasure to the mind or senses, pleasantness, agreeableness.

      The thirſt of raigne and ſweetnes of a crowne, […] / Moou’d me to menage armes againſt thy ſtate.

      c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii

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      Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.

      1906, Violet Hunt, The Workaday Woman, page 1

   4. countableinformaluncountableA term of address for one's sweetheart.

      "Hey sweetness," he said. "How was practice?"

      2011, Kimberly Gibney, Over the Edge, page 66

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      Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said / I'd like to smash every tooth in your head.

      1986, The Smiths (band), Bigmouth Strikes Again (song)