sweetening

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sweet=en=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

sweetening, n. 

•  The act of making sweet.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which sweetens.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

sweetening

ambrosia, artificial sweetener, bait, blackstrap, bribe, calcium cyclamate, cane syrup, carrot, clover honey, comb honey, corn syrup, cyclamates, edulcoration, encouragement, fillip, honey, honeycomb, honeydew, honeypot, incentive, incitement, inducement, interest, invitation, lure, maple syrup, molasses, nectar, payment, percentage, persuasive, profit, provocation, reward, saccharification, saccharin, sodium cyclamate, sorghum, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, sugar, sugar-making, sugaring off, sweetener, sweets, syrup, treacle, whet