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mawkishness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mawkishness has 2 senses
- mawkishness(n = noun.feeling) bathos - insincere pathos; Array is a kind of sentimentality
- mawkishness(n = noun.attribute) drippiness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness - falsely emotional in a maudlin way; Array is a kind of emotionalism, emotionality
Derived form adjective mawkish1
has particulars: corn, schmaltz, schmalz, shmaltz, sentimentalism
Derived form adjective mawkish1
CIDE DICTIONARY
mawkishness, n.
The quality or state of being mawkish. J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster]
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