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MAWKISHNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Falsely emotional in a maudlin way
Synonyms:
drippiness; mawkishness; mushiness; sentimentality; sloppiness; soupiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("mawkishness" is a kind of...):
emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mawkishness"):
corn (something sentimental or trite)
schmaltz; schmalz; shmaltz ((Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music)
sentimentalism (a predilection for sentimentality)
Derivation:
mawkish (effusively or insincerely emotional)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Insincere pathos
Synonyms:
bathos; mawkishness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("mawkishness" is a kind of...):
sentimentality (extravagant or affected feeling or emotion)
Derivation:
mawkish (effusively or insincerely emotional)
