Usually means: Pleasure mingled with sadness, nostalgia.
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  1. bittersweetness: Merriam-Webster
  2. bittersweetness: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bittersweetness: Wordnik
  4. bittersweetness: Wiktionary
  5. bittersweetness: Dictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The state or condition of being bittersweet.

Similar:
bitterishness, semisweetness, embitteredness, bitterness, embitterment, tanginess, baddishness, maltiness, heartbrokenness, sourness, more...

Opposite:
unambiguously sweet, purely sweet, saccharine, cloying



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Similar:
bitterishness, semisweetness, embitteredness, bitterness, embitterment, tanginess, baddishness, maltiness, heartbrokenness, sourness, more...

Opposite:
unambiguously sweet, purely sweet, saccharine, cloying



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