Definition of "soapiness" [soap•i•ness]

• The state or quality of being soapy. (noun)

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• "Added in 2006 to the seemingly endless series of Blu Mediterraneo series from this venerable house, Fico di Amalfi opens with an initial soapiness, which is immediately shoved aside by the light citrus peel: one can smell bergamot, orange and meyer lemon."
• "There's initially a soapiness to these stories of dastardly noblemen, goodly priests and betrayed women, but the bewildering complexity and Dickensian scope take it to another level."
• "It has all the soapiness that one would hope for in a book set in a boarding school who is secretly sleeping with whom, who gets voted class president, etc, but it is written with astonishing precision and intelligence, as though Gossip Girl was set in Middlemarch."