fragrancy

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From fragrant + -cy or fragrance + -y.

My honey--who hath sipped its fragrancy? — Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. — Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
While waiting they were shown the city, and saw the public edifices raised as high as the clouds, the market places ornamented with a thousand columns, the fountains of spring water, those of rose water, those of liqueurs drawn from sugar-cane, incessantly flowing into the great squares, which were paved with a kind of precious stone, which gave off a delicious fragrancy like that of cloves and cinnamon. — Candide, Voltaire

bouquet, fragrance, redolence, sweetness

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