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sweetenesse

sweetenesse is the obsolete spelling of sweetness.

Meaning of sweetness

Noun

sweetness (countable and uncountable, plural sweetnesses)

  1. The condition of being sweet (all senses).
    • 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
  2. A pleasant disposition; kindness.
    • Ruth's overwhelming sweetness made Robert forget about his hopelessly low school grades.
  3. The quality of giving pleasure to the mind or senses, pleasantness, agreeableness.
    • 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...
  4. (informal) A term of address for one's sweetheart.
    • Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said / I'd like to smash every tooth in your head.1986, The Smiths (band), Bigmouth Strikes Again (song)

Forms of sweetenesse

pluralsweetenesses

Questions about sweetenesse

What is sweetenesse the obsolete spelling of?
Sweetenesse is the obsolete spelling of sweetness.

Words near sweetenesse in the dictionary

  1. sweetened the pill
  2. sweetened the pot
  3. sweetened up
  4. sweetener
  5. sweeteners
  6. sweetenesse
  7. sweetenest
  8. sweeteneth
  9. sweetening
  10. sweetening the pill
  11. sweetening the pot

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