mawkishness
1. insincere pathos • Syn: bathos • Derivationally related forms: mawkish • Hypernyms: sentimentality 2. falsely emotional in a maudlin way • Syn: sentimentality, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness • Derivationally related forms: sloppy (for: sloppiness), mushy (for: mushiness), drippy (for: drippiness), sentimental (for: sentimentality), mawkish • Hypernyms: emotionality, emotionalism • Hyponyms: corn, schmaltz, shmaltz, schmalz, sentimentalism
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