sweetness
/ˈswitnəs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The quality of giving pleasure to the mind or senses, pleasantness, agreeableness.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said / I'd like to smash every tooth in your head."
- ""Hey sweetness," he said. "How was practice?""
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: swetnes, swētnes, *swōtinassī
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈswitnəs/
- British English: /ˈswiːtnəs/