Noun:

ন্যাকাপনা,

mawkishness's Usage Examples:

goodwill of its people that neither revels in irony nor descends into mawkishness.

experience and dredging up her worst fears as a young female writer: mawkishness, philistinism, naïveté, stupidity, solipsism.

playing make Shelter worth a listen, depending on one's tolerance for mawkishness".

audiobook version, was even blunter, calling the book "truly dopey", with "mawkishness (of) insufferable proportions".

heartbreak, but never succumbs to self-indulgent sentiment or confessional mawkishness.

even Richardson and Sprouse can't fully overcome the clumsy mawkishness around them.

script, which "like many comedies with a sentimental streak, gets lost in mawkishness .

use of the pedals adds an atmospheric element that never devolves to mawkishness, but instead embraces life.

all the girls he's loved before—and to Streep, who alchemizes literary mawkishness into intelligent movie passion.

inclinations, [and] the result is a book that pretty well avoids the mawkishness that mars most of his work.

the mawkishness would be unbearable, but Mr.

that the "internal logic of the story doesn't bear inspection, and the mawkishness and moralising is unappealing".

all its contrivances and occasional lapses into On Golden Pond-style mawkishness, this is a richly crafted yarn that boasts barnstorming, if very showy.

She blamed this mawkishness on the use of Treves's memoirs as source material.

interesting drama, perhaps even allowing the show to get past the inevitable mawkishness of most pregnancy stories.

us themes which are either ignored or dealt with in our cinema with mawkishness and heavy sentimentality.

Cul de Sac avoids both mawkishness and cynicism and instead finds genuine charm in its loopy appreciation.

and even humorously with a difficult situation without descending into mawkishness".

Synonyms:

soupiness; drippiness; emotionality; corn; sloppiness; shmaltz; mushiness; sentimentality; schmalz; schmaltz; sentimentalism; emotionalism;

Antonyms:

warm; cold; emotional; hot; unemotionality;