saccharinity
nounEtymology From saccharine + -ity.
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The quality of being saccharine: (extreme or excessive) sweetness (literal and figurative senses).
- [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 […]1844, The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, Dublin: A. Fullarton, Volume 3, Introduction, p. lxvii:
- No fair exhibitress ever should persuade us that her Dorkings were “sweet things” until we had eaten a slice to prove their saccharinity […]1857 February 7, “The Art of Poultry Keeping, Considered from an Aldermanic point of view”, in Punch, volume 32, page 60:
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- 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.”1919, Lewis R. Freeman, chapter 2, in Sea-Hounds, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 48:
- […] 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.1936, William Faulkner, chapter 4, in Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Modern Library, published 1951, page 104: