sweetness

Other forms of sweetness

plural

sweetnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sweetness

What does sweetness mean?

sweetness means "the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sweetness?

sweetness has 2 syllables: sweet-ness. The stress falls on "sweet". In IPA it is /ˈswitnəs/.

What is another word for sweetness?

Close synonyms include sweet, sugariness, sweet, bouquet, fragrance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sweetness a common word?

sweetness is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.