Sweetness is the quality of tasting of sugar. The sweetness of the fruit, add sweetness, too much sweetness.
It is one of the five basic tastes, and it is the one humans are born wanting — newborns prefer it before they have learned anything. Artificial sweeteners can be hundreds of times sweeter than sugar. The word also means kindness of nature.
1nounsweetnessThe quality of tasting of sugar.
“The sweetness of the ripe strawberries meant we didn't need any sugar.”
2nounkindnessKindness of nature.
“Everyone loved her for her sweetness and her gentle way with children.”
sweetness is a taste, or a quality.
Old English swetnes is sweet plus the -ness ending that makes nouns of quality.
Proto-West Germanic
*swōtinassī — sweetness
Old English
swētnes — sweetness
Middle English
swetnes
English, today
sweetness
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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA