gooeyness

as in sentimentality
the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion) prefers the darkness of the original Grimms' fairy tales to the gooeyness of the modern cartoon versions

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Noun
  • In the season’s back half, neither its overloading of vile desecrations nor maudlin sentimentality adds anything that Monster hadn’t already established four episodes ago.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Raven is ever attentive to the imaging of the West as a kind of battleground, where surveillance (and the camera’s inexorable links to the military apparatus) tussles with sentimentality in a centuries-long project from which the national psyche cannot seem to unlatch.
    Anne Reeve, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Academy historically goes for sentimentalism.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
  • McBride is less interested in exploring another motivation for saving locks of hair: the particular sentimentalism that made people cherish the hair of loved ones, especially those who had died, or of honored forebears.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
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“Gooeyness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gooeyness. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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