MAWKISHNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mawkishness mean? 

• MAWKISHNESS (noun)
  The noun MAWKISHNESS has 2 senses:

1. insincere pathos

2. falsely emotional in a maudlin way

  Familiarity information: MAWKISHNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAWKISHNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Insincere pathos

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

bathos; mawkishness

Hypernyms ("mawkishness" is a kind of...):

sentimentality (extravagant or affected feeling or emotion)

Derivation:

mawkish (effusively or insincerely emotional)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Falsely emotional in a maudlin way

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

drippiness; mawkishness; mushiness; sentimentality; sloppiness; soupiness

Hypernyms ("mawkishness" is a kind of...):

emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mawkishness"):

corn (something sentimental or trite)

schmaltz; schmalz; shmaltz ((Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music)

sentimentalism (a predilection for sentimentality)

Derivation:

mawkish (effusively or insincerely emotional)