Words and phrases that have a meaning related to mawkishness: (123 results)
Often used in the same context:
didacticism, sappiness, sentimentality, pathos, corniness, maudlin, archness, triteness, staginess, facetiousness, bathos, wistfulness, knowingness, pretentiousness, melancholy, lugubriousness, insipidity, moroseness, conventionality, mournfulness, wryness, poeticism, melodrama, ponderousness, ickiness, abjection, cheesiness, impishness, schmaltz, mushiness, ruefulness, sentimentalism, impassivity, theatricality, melodramatics, creepiness, grandiloquence, chirpiness, grisliness, superciliousness, artifice, slyness, metafiction, plaintiveness, dreaminess, inwardness, tawdriness, ingenuousness, carnality, sheepishness, artificiality, pretension, affectless, daftness, sunniness, pompousness, shapelessness, acerbity, stylisation, salaciousness, puerility, incredulousness, pensiveness, saccharine, grotesquerie, blankness, earnestness, banality, misanthropy, lifelessness, unintelligibility, cloy, drollness, girlishness, blandness, brassiness, tearjerking, nasality, jaggedness, winsomeness, melancholia, bashfulness, vapidity, nabokovian, sordidness, poignancy, grand guignol, wittiness, insipidness, profundity, unworldliness, kinkiness, gawkiness, grimness, glibness, affectations, slightness, mundaneness, absurdism, ghostliness, grotesqueness, irascibility, affectation, nastiness, naughtiness, silliness, braggadocio, cant, foolishness, histrionics, humbug, indulgence, mysteriousness, sloppiness, twaddle, vulgarity, waywardness, weirdness, awkwardness, bombast
More specific:
schmalz
More general:
Also try:emotionalism, emotionality
— Adjectives for mawkishness: such, sentimental, adolescent, certain, mere, unwholesome, occasional, wretched, sheer, much, solemn, more...
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