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Definition: Sweetness |
SweetnessNoun1. The taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth. 2. The property of containing sugar. 3. A pleasingly sweet olfactory property. 4. The quality of giving pleasure; "he was charmed by the sweetness of her manner"; "the pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sweetness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | The character imparted to a wine by the presence of sugar. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | SWEETNESS. Guinea droppers, cheats, sharpers. To sweeten to decoy, or draw in. To be sweet upon; to coax, wheedle, court, or allure. He seemed sweet upon that wench; he seemed to court that girl. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: SweetnessSynonyms: bouquet (n), fragrance (n), pleasantness (n), redolence (n), sugariness (n), sweet (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unpleasantness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sweetness | Noun: sweetness, dulcitude. |
Waste | Waste its sweetness on the desert air ; cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a wheel; labor in vain; (useless); cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sweetness |
| English words defined with "sweetness": bittersweet ♦ Dissweeten, Douceur, Dry wine, Dulceness, Dulcitude ♦ Euphonon ♦ Fragrancy ♦ Mellifluence ♦ Organista, Outsweeten ♦ pale, pallid, pleasantness ♦ Redolency ♦ saccharinity, semisweet, Shama, Suaviloquy, sugariness, sweetness and light ♦ To draw out ♦ Wood thrush. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sweetness": Allegiance, Athenian Bee ♦ Mithcah ♦ Pacify, Proboscis ♦ Sorbitol. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sweetness": Outsweeten. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, and their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption. (The Big Sleep; writing credit: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman. Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler.) Dear, sweetness, light of my life -- with men, you always have a choice. (Next Stop Wonderland; writing credit: Brad Anderson; Lyn Vaus) Maggie, when you grow up and are incredibly beautiful and intelligent and possess a certain sweetness that's that's like a distant promise to the brave, to the worthy, could you please not beat to a pulp every miserable bastard that comes your way simply because you can? (One Fine Day; writing credit: Terrel Seltzer; Ellen Simon) | |
Lyrics | This sweetness will not be concerned with me (Sweetness; performing artist: Jimmy Eat World) Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden (Morning Has Broken; performing artist: Cat Stevens) Exotic sweetness, a magical time (I Love You Always Forever; performing artist: Donna Lewis) For the sweetness in your soul (LOVE IS IN CONTROL; performing artist: Donna Summer) It's sweetness that I'm thinking of. (Buffalo Stance; performing artist: Neneh Cherry) | |
Song Titles | Sweetness (performing artist: Jimmy Eat World) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Eva Arrington | Gratitude expressed to others is a balm of sweetness that makes life more pleasant. |
Henry David Thoreau | Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere. |
Homer | Sweeter it [wrath] is by far than the honeycomb dripping with sweetness, and spreads through the hearts of men. |
Jeremy Taylor | A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity. |
Matthew Arnold | The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. |
| He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail. | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She had all the natural grace of sweetness of temper and artlessness in herself. |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | But the gentle sweetness of his face quite neutralized the apparent rudeness of the reply. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had, under a veil of incomparable sweetness, something of death and of night. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Old phrases, sweet only with a disinterred sweetness like the figseeds Cranly rooted out of his gleaming teeth. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If you hold your nose while eating chocolate, for example, you will have trouble identifying the chocolate flavor--even though you can distinguish the food's sweetness or bitterness. (references) | |
Business | Sometimes for their sweetness and sometimes for their cutting-edge design. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ALLEGIANCE, n. This thing Allegiance, as I suppose, Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose, Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed. G.J. |
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| "Sweetness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.67% of the time. "Sweetness" is used about 304 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.67% | 303 | 16,643 |
| Noun (common) | 0.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 304 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "sweetness". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Mithcah | N/A | Biblical | Sweetness |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expression using "sweetness": sweetness and light. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sweetness": sweetness-and-light. | |
Ending with "sweetness": bitter-sweetness, over-sweetness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sweetness | 138 |
eat jimmy lyrics sweetness world | 47 |
lyrics sweetness | 33 |
eat jimmy sweetness world | 13 |
payton run sweetness walter | 8 |
run sweetness | 7 |
by eat jimmy lyrics sweetness world | 5 |
follow sweetness | 2 |
all sweetness and light | 2 |
jimmy lyrics sweetness | 2 |
eat jimmy midi sweetness world | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sweetness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | beminnenswaardigheid, beminlikheid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ëmbëlsi (greasiness, honey, kindness, pleasantness, suavity, tenderness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حلاوة (sweet), عذوبة (delightfulness, freshness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сладост (mellowness, zest), благоуханност, приветливост (affability, amiability, suavity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "美 , " (sweet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sladkost (sweet), nìha (tenderness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sødme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zachtheid (balminess, gentleness, leniency, meekness, mellowness, mildness, softness, tenderness, weakness), lieftalligheid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | dolĉeco, amindo (charm), amindeco. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | makeus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | douceur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Süßigkeit (candy), süße (chickadee, sweetly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γλυκύτητα (amenity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מתיקות (lusciousness, mellifluence, pleasantness), מתק (squash), מותק (pleasantness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | frissesség (coolness, freshness, lustiness), édesség (banquet, candy, comfit, comfits, confection, confectionery, goody, lusciousness, sweet, sweet stuff, sweetie, sweetmeat, sweets, sweety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kecantikan (attractiveness, daintiness, loveliness, pulchritude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dolcezza (fleeciness, gentleness, honey, kindness, mildness, mossiness, silkiness, softness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "露 (nectar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | か"ろ (nectar), か"み (saltiness, sugary taste), あまみ (sugary taste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 감미. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | milljid (douceur, lusciousness, sugariness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eetnesssway doçura (geniality). (various references) dulceaţã (dainties, jam, mildness, softness, sweets, voluptuousness). (various references) сладость (saccharinity, sugariness, sweets). (various references) blasdachd (tastefulness). (various references) slast (delight, relish). (various references) pastoso (doughy, pasty, plummy), dulzura (chickadee, gentleness, mellowness, softness), abocado (sweet). (various references) utamu. (various references) sötma (honey). (various references) sevimlilik (amiability, charm, cuteness, geniality, loveliness, niceness, suavity), yumuşaklık (ductility, geniality, gentleness, give, kid glove, lenience, leniency, limpness, malleability, mellowness, mildness, smoothness, softness, suppleness), tazelik (bloom, crispness, dew, freshness, greenness, verdancy, verdure, viridity, youth), tatlılık (affability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, bonhomie, lusciousness, mellowness, smoothness, softness, suavity, sweet), nezaket (affability, civility, comity, complaisance, courtesy, daintiness, decency, decorum, delicacy, devoirs, gallantry, gentleness, grace, gracefulness, graciousness, keenness, kindliness, kindness, mildness, polish, politeness, suavity, urbaneness, urbanity), naziklik (affability, discretion, politeness), hoş koku (redolence), güzel koku (aroma, flavour, fragrance, perfume, scent, sweet), şirinlik. (various references) свіжість (coolness, dew, freshness, originality, verdure, viridity), солодкість (sweet), мелодійність (melody, tune), духмяність. (various references) vẻ có duyên, vẻ đáng yêu (loveliness), tính dễ thương (likability, likableness, lovability, lovableness), tính chất ngọt ng o tính chất tươi mát tính dịu d ng, tính chất ngọt. (various references) pereidd-dra, melyster. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dulcedine, dulcedinem, dulcedinis, dulcedo, dulcoris, mel, melchae, melchia, melchiae, melchias, melle, mellis, suavitate, suavitatem, suavitatis, sub. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 16, Verse 21 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | TouV sofouV kai sunetouV faulouV kalousin oi de glukeiV en logw pleiona akousontai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui sapiens corde est appellabitur prudens et qui dulcis eloquio maiora percipiet |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Who is wis in herte, shal be clepid prudent; and who is sweete in fair speche, more thingis shal finde. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 16, Verse 21 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang manggialamon sa kasingkasing pagatawgon nga buotan; Ug ang pagkatam-is sa mga ngabil nagadugang sa kahibalo. |
| Chinese | 心 中 有 智 慧 、 必 稱 為 通 " 人 ． 嘴 中 的 " 言 、 增 人 的 學 問 。 |
| Croatian | Mudar srcem naziva se razumnim i prijazne usne uveæavaju znanje. |
| Danish | Den vise kaldes forstandig, Læbernes Sødme øger Viden. |
| Dutch | De wijze van hart zal verstandig genoemd worden; en de zoetheid der lippen zal de lering vermeerderen. |
| Finnish | Jolla on viisas sydän, sitä ymmärtäväiseksi sanotaan, ja huulten suloisuus antaa opetukselle tehoa. |
| French | Celui qui est sage de coeur est appelé intelligent, Et la douceur des lèvres augmente le savoir. |
| German | Ein Verständiger wird gerühmt für einen weisen Mann, und liebliche Reden lehren wohl. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Lè yon moun gen bon konprann, yo di li gen lespri. Lè ou pale byen sa fè ou gen plis konesans. |
| Hungarian | A ki elméjében bölcs, hívatik értelmesnek; a beszédnek pedig édessége neveli a tudományt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang bijaksana dikenal dari pikirannya yang tajam; cara bicaranya yang menarik, membuat kata-katanya makin meyakinkan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Orang yang berbudi hatinya itu akan digelar bijaksana, dan manislah lidah barangsiapa yang meramaikan pengetahuan yang berguna. |
| Italian | Sar chiamato intelligente chi è saggio di mente; il linguaggio dolce aumenta la dottrina. |
| Maori | ¶ Ka kiia te whakaaro nui he matau; ma te reka hoki o nga ngutu ka neke ai te mohio. |
| Norwegian | Den som er vis i hjertet, blir kalt forstandig, og lebers sødme fremmer lærdom. |
| Portuguese | O sábio de coração será chamado prudente; e a doçura dos lábios aumenta o saber. |
| Rumanian | Cine are o inimq knyeleaptq este numit priceput, dar dulceaya buzelor mqrewte wtiinya. - |
| Russian | нХ"ТЩК УЕТ""ЕН ТПЪПЧЕФУС 'МБЗПТБЪХНОЩН, Й УМБ"ЛБС ТЕЮШ ТЙ'БЧЙФ Л ХЮЕОЙА. |
| Swedish | Den som har ett vist hjärta, honom kallar man förståndig, och där sötma är på läpparna hämtas mer lärdom. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sweetness": sweetnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sweetness": bittersweetness, oversweetness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sweetness": bittersweetnesses, oversweetnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Sweetness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: switness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sweetness" (pronounced swē"tnus) |
| 5 | -ē" t n u s | completeness, neatness. |
| 4 | -t n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, alertness, appropriateness, astuteness, bluntness, brightness, compactness, correctness, cuteness, directness, earnestness, eyewitness, faintness, fastness, fitness, flatness, forthrightness, gauntness, greatness, ineptness, inertness, lateness, lightfastness, lightness, politeness, quietness, remoteness, rightness, robustness, separateness, shortness, softness, steadfastness, stoutness, swiftness, tartness, tightness, unpleasantness, vastness, wetness, whiteness, witness. |
| 3 | -n u s | aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, arbitrariness, assertiveness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, competitiveness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, fairness, farsightedness, fickleness, firmness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, nervousness, newness, niceness, niggardliness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quickness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, riskiness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, tardiness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wetnesses. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-n-s-s-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: sweetens. | |
-2 letters: sweeten, wetness. | |
-3 letters: etwees, nesses, newest, senses, sweets, tenses. | |
-4 letters: esses, etwee, nests, newts, sense, sente, stews, sweet, teens, tense, tween, weens, weest, weets, wests. | |
-5 letters: eses, ewes, ness, nest, nets, news, newt, seen, sees, sene, sent, sets, sewn, sews, stew, teen, tees, tens, tews, twee, ween, wees, weet, wens, went, west, wets. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-n-s-s-s-t-w" | |
+2 letters: sweetnesses, westernises, whitenesses. | |
+3 letters: earwitnesses, eyewitnesses, sweatinesses, tweedinesses, waterinesses, wontednesses. | |
+4 letters: betweennesses, oversweetness, waterlessness, wealthinesses, weightinesses, witlessnesses. | |
+5 letters: unwontednesses, wastefulnesses, waterishnesses, weightlessness, wretchednesses. | |
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