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sweetness
(sweet|ness)
Pronunciation:
/ˈswiːtnɪs/
noun
[
mass noun
]
the quality of being sweet.
used as an affectionate form of address, though often ironically:
I’ve just got to go, sweetness
Phrases
sweetness and light
social or political harmony:
the relationship was by no means all sweetness and light
good-natured benevolence:
when he’s around she’s all sweetness and light
[taken from Swift and used with aesthetic or moral reference, first by Arnold in
Culture and Anarchy
(1869)]
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