All schmaltz synonyms

noun schmaltz

• wistfulness — characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning.
• mush — a trip or journey, especially across snow and ice with a dog team.
• corn — Corn is used to refer to crops such as wheat and barley. It can also be used to refer to the seeds from these plants.
• goo — a thick or sticky substance: Wash that goo off your hands.
• human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
• 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.
• corniness — the quality of being corny
• heartbreaker — a person, event, or thing causing heartbreak.
• 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.
• hokum — out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
• hearts and flowers — maudlin sentimentality: The play is a period piece, full of innocence abused and hearts and flowers.
• 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.