| NOUN | attribute | sentimentality, mawkishness, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness | falsely emotional in a maudlin way |
|---|---|---|---|
| feeling | sentimentality | extravagant or affected feeling or emotion |
| Sounds | seh.nahmehntae'lihtiy; seh.ntahmehntae'lihtiy | |
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| Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... | |
| Meaning | falsely emotional in a maudlin way. | |
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| Synonyms | mawkishness, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness | |
| Narrower | corn | Something sentimental or trite |
| schmaltz, shmaltz, schmalz | (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music | |
| sentimentalism | A predilection for sentimentality | |
| Broader | emotionality, emotionalism | emotional nature or quality |
| Spanish | blandenguería, cursilería, sensiblería, sentimentalismo, superficialidad, susceptibilidad | |
| Catalan | sensibleria | |
| Adjectives | sentimental | effusively or insincerely emotional |
| Meaning | extravagant or affected feeling or emotion. | |
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| Narrower | mawkishness, bathos | insincere pathos |
| Broader | sentiment | tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion |
| Adjectives | sentimental | given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality |
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