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Another word for mawkishness

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The quality or condition of being affectedly or overly emotional:

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

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She has all the abandon of an Italian improvisatore, the simplicity of a Bernardin de St Pierre without his mawkishness, the sentimentality of a Rousseau without his egotism, the rhythmic eloquence of a Chateaubriand without his grandiloquence.

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