mawkishness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

mawkishness
    n 1: insincere pathos [syn: {mawkishness}, {bathos}]
    2: falsely emotional in a maudlin way [syn: {mawkishness},
       {sentimentality}, {drippiness}, {mushiness}, {soupiness},
       {sloppiness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Mawkishness \Mawk"ish*ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being mawkish. --J. H. Newman.
   [1913 Webster]

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