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n. - The excessive sweetness of a crystalline cyclic imide

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Usage examples (7)
  • Adjective : a powdery substance with a saccharine taste. ,a saccharine dessert. ,a saccharine personality. ,a saccharine smile; a saccharine song of...
  • She displayed an overwhelming saccharinity that was appalling.
  • Elise Polko has worked up an elaborate fiction on this affair with her usual saccharinity.
  • I've yet to see an adequate explanation for that which doesn't turn on some nonsense about students being the light of a teacher's life or similarly saccharinity (I made...
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