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soppiness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of soppiness

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

  • sees Valentine's Day as just an excuse for unbridled displays of soppiness
Synonyms of soppiness

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

emotion

sentiment

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

cynicism, hardheadedness, hard-heartedness

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