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SOUPINESS
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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 ("soupiness" is a kind of...):
emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "soupiness"):
corn (something sentimental or trite)
schmaltz; schmalz; shmaltz ((Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music)
sentimentalism (a predilection for sentimentality)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The property of having the thickness of heavy cream
Synonyms:
creaminess; soupiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("soupiness" is a kind of...):
thickness (resistance to flow)
Derivation:
soupy (having the consistency and appearance of soup)
