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A pleasingly sweet olfactory property
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sweetness
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth [syn: sweet , sugariness ] the property of containing sugar [syn: sweet ] a pleasingly sweet olfactory property [syn: bouquet , fragrance , redolence ] the quality of giving pleasure; "he was charmed ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English swetnes ; see sweet (adj.) + -ness .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sweetness is one of the five basic tastes and is universally regarded as a pleasurable experience, except perhaps in excess. Foods rich in simple carbohydrates such as sugar are those most commonly associated with sweetness, although there are other natural ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES be all smiles/innocence/sweetness etc ▪ And the sporty victim herself was all smiles, too. ▪ But the next day Zara and Johnson were all smiles as they enjoyed a day out at a pub. ▪ Fakhru was all smiles and had his son by ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The condition of being sweet or sugary. 2 A pleasant disposition; kindness.
Usage examples of sweetness.
Shiraz, there is persuasion and sweetness and fascination on thy tongue, and I am touched with compassion for the soles of Baba Mustapha, that I bastinadoed but yesterday, and he was from Shiraz likewise.
Though not gifted with the strength and suppleness of a great humorist, he had an intermingled sweetness and brightness beyond even the alchemy of Addison.
One of those colored men who soften the trade of janitor in many of the smaller apartment-houses in New York by the sweetness of their race let the Marches in, or, rather, welcomed them to the possession of the premises by the bow with which he acknowledged their permit.
The sweetness of the almond trees was the sweetness of spring in the air, and spring was in the face of that Queen as she came with her attendants up the shining steps, her little martlets circling about her or perching on her shoulders: she to whom the Gods of old gave youth everlasting, and peace everlasting in Koshtra Belorn.
Savagely he drank from the melliferous sweetness of her mouth, until her mind blanked.
Mozart, the melodist of ineffable sweetness, and finally at the end of the century, the great master, Beethoven.
Her endless questions were laced with humor and a sweetness that moved the merman more than he wanted to admit.
But when of two men in deadly peril from an approaching explosion only one can escape, and the stronger, instead of monopolizing the chance, as he might, stands back and lays down his life in saving the weaker, it is a deed of heroic virtue, applauded by all men, supported by the whole moral creation which derives new beauty and sweetness from it.
Nathaniel cupped her hips, pressed his fingers into rounded flesh while he suckled, wide mouthed, both of them convulsing with the sweetness of it.
Food arrived and Matt ate, dipping her bacon in the egg yolks and the syrup, loving the citrus bite of the orange juice after the sopping, pillowy texture and maple sweetness of the pancakes.
Matt ate, dipping her bacon in the egg yolks and the syrup, loving the citrus bite of the orange juice after the sopping, pillowy texture and maple sweetness of the pancakes.
The next was Politian, equally renowned for hard scholarship and for the sweetness and charm of his voluminous poems.
Miss Robinson, denying the sweetness, proffered her cup in proof, and Mrs.
The skep full was indeed a wonderful feast for them, they bit greedily into the heavy scented comb, their jaws were drowned in the sticky flood of sweetness, and they gorged themselves on it without restraint.
It delights too much in comfortable solfeggios, in linked sweetness long drawn out, which soon palls on the senses.