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saccharinity

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Saccharinity (noun) means How sickly sweet something is, whether in taste or in an overly sentimental way.

noun

How sickly sweet something is, whether in taste or in an overly sentimental way.

"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.”" — Lewis R. Freeman (1919)

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