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 bathos, gooeyness, lovey-doveyness, mawkishness, mush, sentimentality, saccharinity, sappiness, sentimentalism, sloppiness, soppiness, syrup (also sirup)Related Words emotion; sentiment; corn, corniness, hokeyness (or hokiness), schmaltz (also schmalz)Near Antonyms cynicism, hardheadedness, hard-heartedness