Synonyms for mawkishness
mawk·ish·ness

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1. mawkishness, bathosnoun

   insincere pathos

   Synonyms:
   soupiness, sentimentality, anticlimax, sloppiness, mushiness, drippiness, bathos

2. mawkishness, sentimentality, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppinessnoun

   falsely emotional in a maudlin way

   Synonyms:
   slovenliness, soupiness, muddiness, unkemptness, wateriness, sentimentality, creaminess, pulpiness, sloppiness, mushiness, drippiness, carelessness, bathos

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1. John Keats:

   The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

2. John Keats:

   The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.