Sweetness Meaning
/ˈswiːtnəs/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe condition of being sweet (all senses).
nounA pleasant disposition; kindness.
Sentence Examples
The sweetness of Interlingua was more suited to my poetic vision.
Death has but sweetness for a Christian soul.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The natural ____ of the honey made the tea taste very delicious.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The natural ____ of the honey added a wonderful flavor to the fresh bread that we had for breakfast today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English swetnes, swetnesse, from Old English swētnes (“sweetness”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtinassī (“sweetness”), equivalent to sweet + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian swietens (“sweetness”), obsolete Dutch zoetenis (“sweetness”), Old High German swuoznessi, suoznessi (“sweetness”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"At the same time, that pain is soothed by the brain’s perception of sweetness on a totally different area of your taste buds."
— 2024 June 6, Brooke Younger, “What Is Swicy, and Why Do You Need It in Your Life?”, in Cozymeal:
"The thirſt of raigne and ſweetnes of a crowne, […] / Moou’d me to menage armes againſt thy ſtate."
— c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
"Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings."
— 1906, Violet Hunt, The Workaday Woman, page 1:
""Hey sweetness," he said. "How was practice?""
— 2011, Kimberly Gibney, Over the Edge, page 66:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The natural ____ of the honey made the tea taste very delicious.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The natural ____ of the honey added a wonderful flavor to the fresh bread that we had for breakfast today.