- sweetness and light as a noun:
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sweetness and light
noun
1 sweetness and light
A mild reasonableness.
phrase
Roget 829: decies repetita placebit [Lat.]; charms strike the sight but merit wins the charms strike the sight but merit wins the soul" [Pope]; sweetness and light" [Swift]; beauty is only skin deep.
Moby thesaurus: bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, goo, hearts-and-flowers, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, romanticism, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality ... show more.
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