sweetness

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• Received-Pronunciation: swēt'nəs
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈswiːtnəs/
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• General-American: /ˈswitnəs/
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• CMU ARPABET: S W IY1 T N AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

93 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: soetheid — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Albanian: ëmbëlsi — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Arabic: حَلَاوَةٌ (ḥalāwatun) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Armenian: քաղցրություն (kʻaġcʻrutʻyun) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Aromanian: dultseatsã — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Asturian: dulzura — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Azerbaijani: şirinlik — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Bulgarian: сла́дост (sládost) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Catalan: dolçor — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Chinese Mandarin: 甜味 (tiánwèi) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Crimean Tatar: tatlılıq — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Czech: sladkost — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Danish: sødme — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Dutch: zoetheid — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Esperanto: dolĉeco — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Finnish: makeus — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Franco-Provençal: doçor — condition of being sweet or sugary
• French: douceur — condition of being sweet or sugary
• French: sucrosité — condition of being sweet or sugary
• French: goût sucré — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Galician: dozura — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Georgian: სიტკბო (siṭḳbo) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Georgian: სიტკბოება (siṭḳboeba) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• German: Süße — condition of being sweet or sugary
• German: Süßigkeit — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Greek: γλύκα (glýka) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Greek: γλυκύτητα (glykýtita) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Ancient Greek: γλυκύτης (glukútēs) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Hebrew: מתיקות (metikút) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Hungarian: édesség — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Icelandic: sætleik — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Italian: dolcezza — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Japanese: 甘さ (amasa) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Kazakh: тәттілік (tättılık) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Korean: 단맛 (danmat) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Korean: 감미 (gammi) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Kyrgyz: таттуулук (tattuuluk) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Latin: dulcēdō — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Latin: dulcitās — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Latin: dulcitūdō — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Latin: dulcor — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Latin: mellinia — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Latin: suāvitās — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Latvian: saldums — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Malay: manis — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Norwegian Bokmål: sødme — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Norwegian Bokmål: søthet — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Norwegian Nynorsk: søtleik — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Occitan: doçor — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Old English: swētnes — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Polish: słodycz — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Portuguese: doçura — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Romanian: dulceață — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Russian: сла́дость (sládostʹ) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Serbo-Croatian: slatkòća — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Spanish: dulzura — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Spanish: dulzor — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Spanish: melosidad — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Spanish: dulcedumbre — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Swedish: sötma — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Tatar: татлылык (tatlılıq) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Thai: ความหวาน (kwaam-wǎan) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Turkish: tatlılık — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Ukrainian: соло́дкість (solódkistʹ) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Uzbek: totlilik — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Welsh: melyster — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Yiddish: זיסקײַט (ziskayt) — condition of being sweet or sugary
• Afrikaans: soetheid — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Albanian: ëmbëlsi — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Azerbaijani: şirinlik — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Bulgarian: ласкавост (laskavost) — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Catalan: dolçor — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Chinese Mandarin: 甜美 (tiánměi) — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Danish: sødme — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Dutch: zoetheid — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Esperanto: amindeco — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Finnish: herttaisuus — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Galician: dozura — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• German: Süße — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• German: Süßigkeit — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Hungarian: kedvesség — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Icelandic: sætleik — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Italian: dolcezza — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Latin: suavitudo — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Latvian: saldums — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Polish: słodycz — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Portuguese: doçura — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Romanian: dulceață — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Russian: доброду́шие (dobrodúšije) — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Russian: доброта́ (dobrotá) — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Serbo-Croatian: slatkost — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Spanish: agradabilidad — pleasant disposition — see also kindness
• Turkish: tatlılık — pleasant disposition — see also kindness