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SOAPINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does soapiness mean?
• SOAPINESS (noun)
The noun SOAPINESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being soap or being covered with soap
Familiarity information: SOAPINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being soap or being covered with soap
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
she could smell the soapiness of the doctor's hands
Hypernyms ("soapiness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Derivation:
soapy (resembling or having the qualities of soap)
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