sappiness

the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion) the over-the-top sappiness of the verse on the Valentine's Day card Synonyms bathos, gooeyness, lovey-doveyness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, saccharinity, sentimentality, sentimentalism, sloppiness, soppiness, syrup (also sirup)Related Words emotion; sentiment; corn, corniness, hokeyness (or hokiness), schmaltz (also schmalz)Near Antonyms cynicism, hardheadedness, hard-heartedness