maudlinness

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Definition of maudlinness word

noun maudlinness The quality of being maudlin. 1

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maudlinness popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

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Synonyms for maudlinness

noun maudlinness

sentimentalism — sentimental tendency or character; predominance of sentiment over reason.
melodrama — a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization.
nostalgia — a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: a nostalgia for his college days.
bathos — In literary criticism, bathos is a sudden change in speech or writing from a serious or important subject to a ridiculous or very ordinary one.
mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.

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