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English
Etymology
saccharine + -ity
Noun
saccharinity (countable and uncountable, plural saccharinities)
- The quality of being saccharine: (extreme or excessive) sweetness (literal and figurative senses).
1844, The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, Dublin: A. Fullarton, Volume 3, Introduction, p. lxvii:[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 […]
1919, Lewis R. Freeman, chapter 2, in Sea-Hounds, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 48: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.”
1936, William Faulkner, chapter 4, in Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Modern Library, published 1951, page 104:[…] 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.