sloppiness

the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion) the tearful sloppiness that you find in so many country-and-western songs Synonyms bathos, gooeyness, lovey-doveyness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, saccharinity, sappiness, sentimentalism, sentimentality, soppiness, syrup (also sirup)Related Words emotion; sentiment; corn, corniness, hokeyness (or hokiness), schmaltz (also schmalz)Near Antonyms cynicism, hardheadedness, hard-heartedness