ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Saccharinity

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Saccharinity is a noun meaning The quality of being saccharine: (extreme or excessive) sweetness (literal and figurative senses).

Meaning

The quality of being saccharine: (extreme or excessive) sweetness (literal and figurative senses).

Example Sentences

No fair exhibitress ever should persuade us that her Dorkings were “sweet things” until we had eaten a slice to prove their saccharinity […]
I took advantage of the interval to hand him one of those most loved lollipops of Yankee youngsterhood, a plump, hard ball of toothsome saccharinity called—obviously from its resistant resiliency—an “All-Day Sucker.”
[…] even an undefined and never-spoken engagement survived, speaking well for the postulation that they did love one another, since during that two days mere romance would have perished, died of sheer saccharinity and opportunity.
[Potatoes] are raised with studious attention to prolific varieties, but with surpassingly little regard to either farina, saccharinity, or flavour; and they hence consist, to an enormous proportion, of a watery and nauseous variety called the lumper […]

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sweetishness, sweetness, sweetnesse, sweetfulness, sapidity, suavity.

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