All sentimentality synonyms
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S s noun sentimentality
- wistfulness — characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning.
- mush — a trip or journey, especially across snow and ice with a dog team.
- mushiness — resembling mush; pulpy.
- 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.
- feeling — a quality of an object that is perceived by feeling or touching: the soft feel of cotton.
- impressibility — The quality of being impressible.
- 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.
- goo — a thick or sticky substance: Wash that goo off your hands.
- affectability — the ability to be influenced or affected by something
- corniness — the quality of being corny
- kitsch — something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste.
- maudlinism — A maudlin condition.
- maudlinness — The quality of being maudlin.
- 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.
- emotionalism — An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner; emotional behaviour or characteristics. (from 19th c.).
- emotionality — The state or quality of being emotional.
- 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.
- impressionability — easily impressed or influenced; susceptible: an impressionable youngster.
- emotionalness — The state or quality of being emotional.
- mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- hearts and flowers — maudlin sentimentality: The play is a period piece, full of innocence abused and hearts and flowers.
- gushiness — The property of being gushy.