Meaning of saccharinity | Babel Free

Definitions

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

countable, uncountable

Examples

“[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 […]”

“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.”

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