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mawkishness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of mawkishness

the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)

  • the grating mawkishness of her poetry makes me want to stamp on wildflowers
Synonyms of mawkishness

bathos, gooeyness, lovey-doveyness, mush, mushiness, saccharinity, sappiness, sentimentalism, sentimentality, sloppiness, soppiness, syrup (also sirup)
Words Related to mawkishness

emotion

sentiment

corn, corniness, hokeyness (or hokiness), schmaltz (also schmalz)
Near Antonyms of mawkishness

cynicism, hardheadedness, hard-heartedness

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