saccharine vs superlative

saccharine

adj
  • Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy. 

  • Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid. 

  • Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”). 

noun
  • Sentimentalism. 

superlative

adj
  • Of or relating to a superlative. 

  • Exceptionally good; of the highest quality; superb. 

noun
  • The extreme (e.g. highest, lowest, deepest, farthest, etc) extent or degree of something. 

  • An adjective used to praise something exceptional. 

  • The form of an adjective that expresses which of several items has the highest degree of the quality expressed by the adjective; in English, formed by appending "-est" to the end of the adjective (for some short adjectives only) or putting "most" before it. 

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