MAWKISHNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does mawkishness mean?
• MAWKISHNESS (noun)
The noun MAWKISHNESS has 2 senses:
1. insincere pathos
2. falsely emotional in a maudlin way
Familiarity information: MAWKISHNESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MAWKISHNESS (noun)
Meaning:
Insincere pathos
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
mawkishness; bathos
Hypernyms ("mawkishness" is a kind of...):
sentimentality (extravagant or affected feeling or emotion)
Meaning:
Falsely emotional in a maudlin way
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
sentimentality; drippiness; mawkishness; mushiness; soupiness; sloppiness
Hypernyms ("mawkishness" is a kind of...):
emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mawkishness"):
corn (something sentimental or trite)
schmaltz; schmalz; shmaltz ((Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music)
sentimentalism (a predilection for sentimentality)