noun
1. insincere pathos
• Syn: ↑bathos
• Derivationally related forms: ↑mawkish
• Hypernyms: ↑sentimentality
2. falsely emotional in a maudlin way
• Syn: ↑sentimentality, ↑drippiness, ↑mushiness, ↑soupiness, ↑sloppiness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑sloppy (for: ↑sloppiness), ↑mushy (for: ↑mushiness), ↑drippy (for: ↑drippiness), ↑sentimental (for: ↑sentimentality), ↑mawkish
• Hypernyms: ↑emotionality, ↑emotionalism
• Hyponyms: ↑corn, ↑schmaltz, ↑shmaltz, ↑schmalz, ↑sentimentalism
Useful english dictionary. 2012.