mawkishness
11sentimentality — noun 1. falsely emotional in a maudlin way (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑mawkishness, ↑drippiness, ↑mushiness, ↑soupiness, ↑sloppiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑sloppy ( …
12bathos — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sentimentality; anticlimax. See feeling, wit. Ant., dispassion. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. melodrama, maudlinness, triteness; see pathos , sentimentality . See Synonym Study at pathos . III (Roget s 3… …
13mush — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. porridge, pottage, oatmeal, cereal; pap, sop, corn (sl.); informal, sentimentality, emotionalism, romance. See feeling, softness, food. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Boiled meal] Syn. Indian meal, hasty… …
14sentimentality — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. sentimentalism, sentiment, melodramatics, bathos, melodrama, maudlinness, triteness, mawkishness, emotionalness, mushiness*, gushiness*; see also emotion , romance 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. mawkishness, *mush,… …
15drippiness — noun 1. the physical property of being soft and drippy • Derivationally related forms: ↑drippy • Hypernyms: ↑physical property 2. falsely emotional in a maudlin way • Syn: ↑mawkishness, ↑sentimentality, ↑ …
16mushiness — noun 1. a mushy pulpy softness • Syn: ↑pulpiness • Derivationally related forms: ↑pulpy (for: ↑pulpiness), ↑mushy • Hypernyms: ↑softness …
17sloppiness — noun 1. the quality of not being careful or taking pains • Syn: ↑carelessness • Ant: ↑carefulness (for: ↑carelessness) • Derivationally related forms: ↑sloppy, ↑ …
18soupiness — noun 1. the property of having the thickness of heavy cream • Syn: ↑creaminess • Derivationally related forms: ↑soupy, ↑creamy (for: ↑creaminess) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
19mawkish — adjective Etymology: Middle English mawke maggot, probably from Old Norse mathkr more at maggot Date: circa 1697 1. having an insipid often unpleasant taste 2. sickly or puerilely sentimental • mawkishly adverb • mawkishness noun …
20verge — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, rod, measuring rod, margin, from Anglo French, rod, area of jurisdiction, from Latin virga twig, rod, line Date: 15th century 1. a. (1) a rod or staff carried as an emblem of authority or symbol of office (2)… …
