sentimentality

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

sentimentality
    n 1: falsely emotional in a maudlin way [syn: {mawkishness},
         {sentimentality}, {drippiness}, {mushiness}, {soupiness},
         {sloppiness}]
    2: extravagant or affected feeling or emotion

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sentimentality \Sen`ti*men*tal"i*ty\, n. [CF. F.
   sentimentalit['e].]
   The quality or state of being sentimental.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

53 Moby Thesaurus words for "sentimentality":
      affection, affectionateness, amativeness, amorousness, bathos,
      bleeding heart, cloyingness, corn, corniness, demonstrativeness,
      ecstasy, emotionalism, enchantment, goatishness, goo, gushiness,
      hearts-and-flowers, horniness, lovelornness, lovesickness,
      maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby,
      namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania,
      oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, pathos, rapture,
      romanticism, sentiment, sentimentalism, sexiness, slop, sloppiness,
      slush, slushiness, soap opera, sob story, soppiness, stickiness,
      susceptibility, sweetness, sweetness and light, tackiness,
      tearfulness, tearjerker, tenderness, weepiness