mawkishness
Excessive saccharine feeling
Mawkishness is excessive sentimentality that feels false or nauseating.
The word carries a sense of cloying sweetness—emotion laid on so thick it produces distaste rather than sympathy: The film's mawkishness made it unwatchable.
Where sentimentality might be merely excessive, mawkishness suggests something slightly sickening about the display.
Excessively tearful sentiment
- sappinessExcessive maudlin sentiment
- schmaltzinessExcessive emotional indulgence
- weepinessInclination to cry easily
- lachrymoseProne to crying
schmaltzy · soppy · saccharine · syrupy · treacly · cloying · tearful · gushy
Causing urge to vomit
- sickeningCausing disgust or nausea
- cloyingExcessively sweet or sentimental
- stomach-turningCausing physical disgust
- queasyMildly sick to stomach
distasteful · off-putting · repellent · revolting · icky · unpalatable · indigestible · saccharine
Excessively emotional or elaborate
- overemotionalExcessively expressive of feelings
- melodramaticExaggeratedly emotional in expression
- theatricalExaggeratedly emotional for effect
- over-the-topExcessively dramatic or extravagant
overblown · overripe · effusive · florid · exaggerated · hyperbolic · extravagant · bombastic
maudlin
Excessively tearful sentiment
- sappinessExcessive maudlin sentiment
- schmaltzinessExcessive emotional indulgence
- weepinessInclination to cry easily
lachrymose · schmaltzy · soppy · saccharine · syrupy · treacly · cloying · tearful · gushy · mushy
nauseating
Causing urge to vomit
- sickeningCausing disgust or nausea
- cloyingExcessively sweet or sentimental
- stomach-turningCausing physical disgust
queasy · distasteful · off-putting · repellent · revolting · icky · unpalatable · indigestible · saccharine · treacle
overwrought
Excessively emotional or elaborate
- overemotionalExcessively expressive of feelings
- melodramaticExaggeratedly emotional in expression
- theatricalExaggeratedly emotional for effect
over-the-top · overblown · overripe · effusive · florid · exaggerated · hyperbolic · extravagant · bombastic · grandiose
- sentimentalityschmaltzy, saccharine, treacly, cloying, mushy
- Bunkbalderdash, baloney, bosh, bunk, bunkum
mawkishnessrestraint
Control over impulses
understatement · reserve · austerity · sobriety · matter-of-factness
mawkishnesscynicism
Distrust of human sincerity
hard-heartedness · hardheadedness · callousness · coldness · unsentimental