Saccharinity
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being saccharine: (extreme or excessive) sweetness (literal and figurative senses). countable, uncountable
"[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 […]"
- 2 the excessive sweetness of saccharin wordnet
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More 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 […]"
Etymology
From saccharine + -ity.
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