mawkishness
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9.5
- noun
- /ˈmɔːkɪʃnəs/
:
sensiblería
- Many critics pointed out the film's mawkishness, arguing it overshadowed the genuine emotions.
Examples
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"You must forgive me, Jen, I sometimes descend into mawkishness." "You don't have to apologize," said Jen.
Fiction book (1995) -
The painter accepts all aspects of her, even her mawkishness.
Fiction book (1991) -
Forgive my mawkishness, Harry.
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Kipling also struggled to find a form of words that would dignify without mawkishness the grave of a body that could not be identified.
Academic text (1997) -
The movie's relentless mawkishness made it hard to take the characters seriously.
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She found the mawkishness in his love letters uncomfortable and exaggerated.
Synonyms
17
5.5
A way of showing too much emotion that seems false
15
8.0
Very sentimental writing or music that feels too sweet
4
9.5
An overly emotional style in art like songs or films
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8.2
Too much sweetness in writing or music that is not sincere
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7.9
A tendency to show too much tender or nostalgic feeling about the past
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6.3
Being too emotional in a way that seems not sincere
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5.4
Too much emotion that seems false
A feeling that is too emotional and seems false
Being overly emotional in a way that seems not sincere
A feeling of being too sad and emotional, often after drinking
Too much emotion in art or music that feels overdone
A feeling that is too emotional in a story or film
Too sentimental and not sincere
A feeling of being silly and fake that others do not take seriously
Antonyms
How Sentimental
Surface Forms
Morphology
mawkishness = mawkish (opaque) = mawk + ish + ness
Forming a noun with '-ness' from the adjective 'mawkish' is a regular, predictable derivation.
Etymology
Mawkishness comes from an older word mawk that meant 'sickly' or 'nauseating', as if something is so sweet it makes you feel ill. So mawkishness now means an over-the-top, often fake kind of emotion that feels false rather than truly touching.