Word Study
sweetness
CIDE DICTIONARY
sweetness, n. [AS. swētness.].
The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sweetness, n. the quality of being sweet; fragrance, melodiousness, etc.
Idiom
sweetness and light a display of (esp. uncharacteristic) mildness and reason.
ROGET THESAURUS
sweetness
Sweetness
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