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Definition of mawkishness :
The quality or state of being mawkish.
Synonyms:
carelessness, maudlinism, pulpiness, mush, sentimentalism, anticlimax, creaminess, wateriness, feelings, schmaltziness, unkemptness, slovenliness, bathos, drippiness, muddiness, soupiness
sensitivity (part of speech: noun)
sappiness, sentimentality, fancifulness, tenderness, sensitivity, mushiness, lovesickness, softness, schmaltz, sloppiness
Usage examples:
- I do not profess to be a very painstaking lover; nay, if you will, the life would bore me, even if in our case the mawkishness of the delay did not do more than bore. - "The Bertrams", Anthony Trollope.
- Both have the heroic quality, both are free from mawkishness and are of the greater Chopin, the Chopin of the mode masculine. - "Chopin: The Man and His Music", James Huneker.
- You see, he murmured in Alexander's ear, as the curtain fell on the first act, one almost never sees a part like that done without smartness or mawkishness. - "Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ", Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes.
