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Sweetness   /swˈitnəs/   Listen
Sweetness

noun
1.
The taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth.  Synonyms: sugariness, sweet.
2.
The property of tasting as if it contains sugar.  Synonym: sweet.
3.
A pleasingly sweet olfactory property.  Synonyms: bouquet, fragrance, fragrancy, redolence.
4.
The quality of giving pleasure.  Synonym: pleasantness.  "The pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day"



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"Sweetness" Quotes from Famous Books



... had spent a very happy evening, a tremendous truth came home to Hosea. Here they were all happy, as if trouble had never entered to disturb the sweetness and beauty of their lives! Why had sorrow and suffering come ...
— Stories of the Prophets - (Before the Exile) • Isaac Landman

... brakes of currant bushes. There was a copper beech, where the birds sang, and from which they raided the fruit with the skill of Highland caterans. The Lodge bees lived all day in this garden, save when they went to reinforce their sweetness from the heather bloom. The big trees stood round the place and covered it from every wind except the south, and the sun was ever blessing it. There was one summer-house, a mass of honeysuckle, and ...
— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren

... victims of the proud, no less, Fair wrecks, on whom the smiling world with stir, 1605 Thrusts the redemption of its wickedness:— In squalid huts, and in its palaces Sits Lust alone, while o'er the land is borne Her voice, whose awful sweetness doth repress All evil, and her foes relenting turn, 1610 And cast the vote of ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley

... it was late, and the sun was shining into the room. She lay on her back and stretched out both arms for sheer sweetness of the sensation of health and love. Everything was well, and she was very happy. Thinking of yesterday, she was even sorry for the Baron, and told herself she had been too ...
— The Eternal City • Hall Caine

... walked up and down the paths of the garden and drank in its sweetness; then he passed on to the orchard and picked from the wet grass a reddening apple, which he ate. Something pulled at his flannel trousers: it was a spaniel puppy, and with it he ...
— A Boswell of Baghdad - With Diversions • E. V. Lucas


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