sweetness Englisch Deutsch:
sweetness Definition:
- Sweetness is one of the five basic tastes and is universally regarded as a pleasurable experience, except perhaps in excess. Foods rich in simple carbohydrates such as sugar are those most commonly associated with sweetness, although there are other natural and artificial compounds that are sweet at much lower concentrations, allowing their use as non-caloric sugar substitutes. Examples of foods that may be used as non-sugar sweet substitutes include saccharin, aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, xylitol, erythritol, and stevia. Other compounds, such as miraculin, may alter perception of sweetness itself.
| Sweetness (n.) The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective) |
| sweetness and light a mild reasonableness, "when he learned who I was he became all sweetness and light" |
| pleasantness / sweetness the quality of giving pleasure, "he was charmed by the sweetness of her manner", "the pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day" |
| bouquet / fragrance / fragrancy / redolence / sweetness a pleasingly sweet olfactory property |
| sweetness / sweet the property of tasting as if it contains sugar |
| sweet / sweetness / sugariness the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth |
sweetness Synonyme:
| sweetness and light bathos bleeding heart cloyingness goo hearts-and-flowers maudlinness mawkishness mush mushiness namby-pamby namby-pambyism namby-pambyness nostalgia nostomania oversentimentalism oversentimentality romanticism sentiment sentimentalism sentimentality slop sloppiness slush soap opera sob story tearjerker |