frothiness
nounEtymology From frothy + -ness.
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The quality of being frothy
- Not all opera is melodramatic or tragic. Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and others have written in a light, comic, or satiric vein. The frothiness of these and the Opera Buffa and Operetta […] are the reverse of the more serious bel canto style.1981 December 5, Michael Bronski, “Coming (Out) to Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 6: