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mushiness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of mushiness

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

  • prefers mindless action movies to the "mushiness" of romantic comedies
Synonyms of mushiness

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

emotion

sentiment

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

cynicism, hardheadedness, hard-heartedness

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