Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mawkishness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mawkishness \Mawk"ish*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being mawkish. --J. H. Newman.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mawkishness
n 1: insincere pathos [syn: {bathos}]
2: falsely emotional in a maudlin way [syn: {sentimentality}]
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