All mawkishness synonyms

noun mawkishness

• sentimentalism — sentimental tendency or character; predominance of sentiment over reason.
• sentiment — an attitude toward something; regard; opinion.
• mushiness — resembling mush; pulpy.
• reminiscence — the act or process of recalling past experiences, events, etc.
• nostalgia — a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: a nostalgia for his college days.
• bathos — In literary criticism, bathos is a sudden change in speech or writing from a serious or important subject to a ridiculous or very ordinary one.
• triteness — lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale: the trite phrases in his letter.
• melodrama — a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization.
• maudlin — tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental: a maudlin story of a little orphan and her lost dog.
• gushy — given to or marked by excessively effusive talk, behavior, etc.
• maudlin — tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental: a maudlin story of a little orphan and her lost dog.
• sentimentality — the quality or state of being sentimental or excessively sentimental.
• weepy — weeping or tending to weep; tearful; lachrymose.
• tearful — full of tears; weeping.
• soppy — soaked, drenched, or very wet, as ground.
• slushy — of or relating to slush.
• over-sentimentality — the quality or state of being sentimental or excessively sentimental.
• emotionalness — The state or quality of being emotional.
• gushiness — The property of being gushy.
• maudlinism — A maudlin condition.
• maudlinness — The quality of being maudlin.