Noun: mawkishness mo-kish-nus
- Falsely emotional in a maudlin way
"The mawkishness of the love scene made some viewers cringe";
- sentimentality, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness
- Insincere pathos
"The speech was full of mawkishness, failing to genuinely move the audience";
- bathos
Type of: emotionalism, emotionality, sentimentality, soppiness