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
  • 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
  • Walsh and Sherman both recognized Lupino’s superior intellect and resistance to unearned sentimentality.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • While leaders of the nature-study movement warned against sentimentalism and make-believe, young readers were delighted by such tales.
    Jessica George, JSTOR Daily, 25 June 2025
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“Gooeyness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gooeyness. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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