mushiness
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7.7
- noun
- /ˈmʌʃiˌnɛs/
- The mushiness of the romantic movie made some viewers roll their eyes at the over-the-top emotion.
Examples
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At the awards ceremony, the speaker's mushiness about friendship felt insincere and made the audience uncomfortable.
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The legislative model, with all its postmodern mushiness, does little to help us define our vision of the local.
Academic text (2016) -
Orgy of mushiness!
Blog text (7) -
Her diary was filled with mushiness, detailing her overly sentimental thoughts on love and relationships.
Synonyms
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5.5
A way of showing too much emotion that seems false
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8.0
Very sentimental writing or music that feels too sweet
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9.5
An overly emotional style in art like songs or films
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4.9
Too sentimental and 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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9.5
A feeling of too much fake emotion that seems overly sweet
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6.3
Being too emotional in a way that seems not sincere
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9.9
Too much emotion in art or music that feels overdone
A feeling that is too emotional and seems false
A feeling of being too sad and emotional, often after drinking
Too much emotion that seems false
A feeling that is too emotional in a story or film
Antonyms
How Sentimental
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mushiness comes from mush, a word for a soft, pulpy mass, plus the ending -iness meaning 'the quality of'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine feelings so soft and gooey they lose shape, so mushiness means being overly sentimental or not sincere.