the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The quality of being sweet, in any sense.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
n. the quality of giving pleasure
n. a pleasingly sweet olfactory property
n. the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
n. the property of tasting as if it contains sugar
Word Usage
"III. ii.25 (69,1) tun'd too sharp in sweetness] -- and _too sharp in sweetness_,] So the folio and all modern editions; but the quarto more accurately,"