sweetness (noun)

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• sweetness — ► NOUN ▪ the quality of being sweet. ● sweetness and light Cf. ↑sweetness and light …   English terms dictionary

• sweetness and light — noun a mild reasonableness when he learned who I was he became all sweetness and light • Hypernyms: ↑affability, ↑affableness, ↑amiability, ↑amiableness, ↑bonhomie, ↑geniality * * * noun …   Useful english dictionary

• sweetness — noun 1 sweet smell/taste ADJECTIVE ▪ natural ▪ cloying (esp. BrE), sickly ▪ the sickly sweetness of incense … OF SWEETNESS ▪ hint …   Collocations dictionary

• sweetness and light — noun Date: 1869 1. a harmonious combination of beauty and enlightenment viewed as a hallmark of culture 2. a. amiable reasonableness of disposition < they were all sweetness and light > b. an untroubled or harmonious state or condition < but all… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• sweetness — noun (U) 1 how sweet something is 2 be all sweetness and light to behave in a way that is very pleasant and friendly, especially when you do not normally behave like this: She s all sweetness and light when Paul s around …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• sweetness — noun /ˈswiːtnəs/ a) The condition of being sweet or sugary. Ruths overwhelming sweetness made Robert forget about his hopelessly low school grades. b) A pleasant disposition; kindness …   Wiktionary

• sweetness and light — noun That which is good, pure, pleasant, etc. So it transpired, though not everything at Garmisch was sweetness and light. The leader of the British team, Arnold Lunn, the father of alpine ski racing and a British public school amateur to the… …   Wiktionary

• sweetness — noun the quality of being sweet. Phrases sweetness and light good natured benevolence or harmony. [taken from Jonathan Swift and used by Matthew Arnold in Culture and Anarchy (1869).] …   English new terms dictionary

• sweetness — noun see sweet I …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• sweetness — sweet|ness [ switnəs ] noun uncount 1. ) the pleasant quality of someone or something: music of unbearable sweetness 2. ) the sweet smell or taste of something: the sweetness of coconut milk all sweetness and light if a person or situation is all …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• sweetness — UK [ˈswiːtnəs] / US [ˈswɪtnəs] noun [uncountable] 1) the pleasant quality of someone or something music of unbearable sweetness 2) the sweet smell or taste of something the sweetness of coconut milk • all sweetness and light …   English dictionary