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Word entry · 9 letters

sweetness

Best crossword clue

"Sugar quality"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ˈswiːtnəs/Part of speech nounSorted eeenssstwStarts with SEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Sweet taste, pleasantness, or kind affection.

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • At the same time, that pain is soothed by the brain’s perception of sweetness on a totally different area of your taste buds.
  • Ruth's overwhelming sweetness made Robert forget about his hopelessly low school grades.
  • The thirſt of raigne and ſweetnes of a crowne, […] / Moou’d me to menage armes againſt thy ſtate.

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