sweetness
nomattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈswiːtnəs//
- États-Unis//ˈswitnəs//
The condition of being sweet (all senses).
nom
- 1
The condition of being sweet (all senses).
At the same time, that pain is soothed by the brain’s perception of sweetness on a totally different area of your taste buds.
- 2
A pleasant disposition; kindness.
Ruth's overwhelming sweetness made Robert forget about his hopelessly low school grades.
- 3
The quality of giving pleasure to the mind or senses, pleasantness, agreeableness.
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.
- 4
familierA term of address for one's sweetheart.
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?"
Étymologie
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”).
Formes
- pluriel
- sweetnesses
sweetness · The condition of being sweet (all senses).
sweets · Confectionery, candy.swell · To become larger, fuller, or rounder, or expand in size or…swelling · The state of being swollen.