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MAWKISHNESS

• 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.

• MAWKISHNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

Sense 2

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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)

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Definition of emotionalism
Pronunciation of schmaltz
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