sweetness

Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural sweetnesses)

The condition of being sweet or sugary.
A pleasant disposition; kindness.
Ruth's overwhelming sweetness made Robert forget about his hopelessly low school grades.

Origin

sweet +‎ -ness

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There was an unguarded sweetness to her and her nervous chatter.
It seemed to show spontaneity and great sweetness of character.
In his luminous subtlety and his broad undulating sweetness, his relationship with Virgil has long been manifest; he was himself aware of it.
From the peculiar use which is made of the produce of an irrigated meadow, and from the conditions to which it is subjected, it is necessary to include in our mixture of seeds some that produce an early crop, some that give an abundant growth, and some that impart sweetness and good flavour, while all the kinds sown must be capable of flourishing on irrigated soil.
Lorenzo recommended the young Leonardo, who went to Milan accordingly (at some uncertain date in or about 1483), taking as a gift from Lorenzo and a token of his own skill a silver lute of wondrous sweetness fashioned in the likeness of a horse's head.

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