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SWEETNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of giving pleasure
Example:
the pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day
Synonyms:
pleasantness; sweetness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sweetness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Attribute:
pleasant (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings)
unpleasant (offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sweetness"):
pleasingness (the quality of giving pleasure to the senses)
agreeableness; amenity (pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions)
enjoyableness (pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed)
niceness (the quality of nice)
Derivation:
sweet (having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub)
sweet (pleasing to the ear)
sweet (pleasing to the mind or feeling)
sweet (pleasing to the senses)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A pleasingly sweet olfactory property
Synonyms:
bouquet; fragrance; fragrancy; redolence; sweetness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sweetness" is a kind of...):
aroma; odor; odour; olfactory property; scent; smell (any property detected by the olfactory system)
Derivation:
sweet (having a natural fragrance)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The property of tasting as if it contains sugar
Synonyms:
sweet; sweetness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sweetness" is a kind of...):
taste property (a property appreciated via the sense of taste)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sweetness"):
saccharinity (the excessive sweetness of saccharin)
sugariness (the sweetness of sugar)
Derivation:
sweet (with sweetening added)
sweet ((used of wines) having a high residual sugar content)
sweet (having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
Synonyms:
sugariness; sweet; sweetness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sweetness" is a kind of...):
gustatory perception; gustatory sensation; taste; taste perception; taste sensation (the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus)
Derivation:
sweet (having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar)
Context examples:
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She gave me her hand; but with such sweetness and dignity that I could only stoop and kiss it.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And then with an overpowering sweetness of relief, it came back upon my mind that the servants were already used to the coming and going of my second self.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Simon is a hard and perilous man when he hath the bitter drop in him; and, by my hilt! he was born for war, for there is little sweetness or rest in him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Never mind what happened just after that, for the full hearts overflowed, washing away the bitterness of the past and leaving only the sweetness of the present.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
With two behavioral and electroencephalographic experiments, the study demonstrated that people of normal weight tend to associate natural foods such as apples with their sensory characteristics such as sweetness or softness.
(Our Weight Tells How We Assess Food, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Yet my lips were sealed, and it was only last night that I could tell him that it was his mother whom he had brought back by his gentleness and his patience into the sweetness of life.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I never saw a more interesting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness, but there are moments when, if anyone performs an act of kindness towards him or does him any the most trifling service, his whole countenance is lighted up, as it were, with a beam of benevolence and sweetness that I never saw equalled.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He still breathed the air, which bit his lungs with a painful sweetness; and dimly he saw and heard, with passing spells of blindness and deafness, the flashes of sight and sound again wherein he saw the hunters of Ivan falling to their deaths, and his own brothers fringing the carnage and filling the air with the tumult of their cries and weapons, and, far above, the women and children loosing the great rocks that leaped like things alive and thundered down.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It is only that he is blessed with greater sweetness of address, and a stronger desire of generally pleasing, than any other man.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
