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noun

    The quality or condition of being affectedly or overly emotional: bathos, maudlinism, mawkishness, sentimentalism, sentimentality. Informal mush, schmaltz, schmaltziness, sloppiness. Slang sappiness. See feelings.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a mushy pulpy softness

Meaning #2: (informal) excessive sentimentality
  Synonyms: schmaltz, schmalz


 
 
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