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Soapiness   Listen
noun
Soapiness  n.  Quality or state of being soapy.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Soapiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... to that object, nothing else having any conscious value. This latter phenomenon is very striking in children; they become fascinated by something they hear or see and project themselves, as it were, into that object; they become the "soapiness of soap, or the wetness of water" (to use Chesterton's phrase), and when they listen to a story they hold nothing in reserve. Consciousness may busy itself with its past phases, with the preceding thought, emotion, sensation —how, I do not know—or it may occupy itself ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson



Words linked to "Soapiness" :   soapy



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