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mushiness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mushiness has 2 senses
- mushiness(n = noun.attribute) pulpiness - a mushy pulpy softness; Array is a kind of softness
- mushiness(n = noun.attribute) drippiness, mawkishness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness - falsely emotional in a maudlin way; Array is a kind of emotionalism, emotionality
Derived form adjective mushy1
has particulars: corn, schmaltz, schmalz, shmaltz, sentimentalism
Derived form adjective mushy2
THESAURUS
mushiness
bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, doughiness, flabbiness, fleshiness, goo, hearts-and-flowers, mashiness, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, pastiness, pithiness, pulpiness, pulpousness, romanticism, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush, soap opera, sob story, softness, sponginess, squashiness, succulence, sweetness and light, tearjerker
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