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noun

(Informal)

The quality or condition of being affectedly or overly emotional:

bathos, maudlinism, mawkishness, sentimentalism, sentimentality. (Informal) mush, mushiness, schmaltziness, sloppiness. (Slang) sappiness. See feelings

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