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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sweetness \Sweet"ness\, n. [AS. sw[=e]tness.] The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English swetnes; see sweet (adj.) + -ness.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The condition of being sweet or sugary. 2 A pleasant disposition; kindness.
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 by the sweetness of her manner"; "the pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day" [syn: pleasantness] [ant: unpleasantness]
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 and artificial compounds that are sweet at much lower concentrations, allowing their use as non-caloric sugar substitutes. Examples of foods that may be used as non-sugar sweet substitutes include saccharin, aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, xylitol, erythritol, and stevia. Other compounds, such as miraculin, may alter perception of sweetness itself.
The chemosensory basis for detecting sweetness, which varies between both individuals and species, has only begun to be understood since the late 20th century. One theoretical model of sweetness is the multipoint attachment theory, which involves multiple binding sites between a sweetness receptor and a sweet substance.
Studies indicate that responsiveness to sugars and sweetness has very ancient evolutionary beginnings, being manifest as chemotaxis even in motile bacteria such as E. coli. Newborn human infants also demonstrate preferences for high sugar concentrations and prefer solutions that are sweeter than lactose, the sugar found in breast milk. Sweetness appears to have the highest taste recognition threshold, being detectable at around 1 part in 200 of sucrose in solution. By comparison, bitterness appears to have the lowest detection threshold, at about 1 part in 2 million for quinine in solution. In the natural settings that human primate ancestors evolved in, sweetness intensity should indicate energy density, while bitterness tends to indicate toxicity The high sweetness detection threshold and low bitterness detection threshold would have predisposed our primate ancestors to seek out sweet-tasting (and energy-dense) foods and avoid bitter-tasting foods. Even amongst leaf-eating primates, there is a tendency to prefer immature leaves, which tend to be higher in protein and lower in fibre and poisons than mature leaves. The 'sweet tooth' thus has an ancient evolutionary heritage, and while food processing has changed consumption patterns, human physiology remains largely unchanged.
"Sweetness" is Misia's 5th single. It was released on November 25, 1999 simultaneously with Wasurenai Hibi. It peaked at #7 selling 92,290 copies on its first week.
"Sweetness" is a song by American alternative rock band Jimmy Eat World. It was released in June 2002 as the third single from their 2001 album, Bleed American. The song was also featured on the soundtrack for the EA Sports video game NHL 2003. It was originally written to appear on the album Clarity; the band played the song live many times during the Clarity tour, and a demo recording of it was included on the 2007 re-issue of Clarity.
Sweetness is a 1995 novel by Swedish author Torgny Lindgren. It won the August Prize in 1995.
Sweetness is one of the five basic tastes.
- Sweetness of wine
Sweetness may also refer to:
- Walter Payton (1954-1999), an American football player nicknamed "Sweetness"
- Sweetness, a character in the 2005 film Roll Bounce, portrayed by Wesley Jonathan.
- "Sweetness" (Fischerspooner song)
- "Sweetness" (Jimmy Eat World song)
- "Sweetness" (Lili Haydn song)
- "Sweetness" (Misia song)
- "Sweetness" (Terence Trent D'Arby song)
- "Sweetness" (The Waifs song)
- "Sweetness" (Toadies song)
- "Sweetness" (Umphrey's McGee song)
- "Sweetness" (Yes song)
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.