Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sweetness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

sweetness
n 1: the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth [syn:
{sweet}, {sugariness}]
2: the property of containing sugar [syn: {sweet}]
3: a pleasingly sweet olfactory property [syn: {bouquet}, {fragrance},
{redolence}]
4: 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}]


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