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Noun mawkishness has 2 senses
  1. mawkishness, bathos - insincere pathos
    --1 is a kind of sentimentality
  2. mawkishness, sentimentality, drippiness - falsely emotional in a maudlin way
    --2 is a kind of emotionality, emotionalism
    --2 has particulars:
     corn; schmaltz, shmaltz, schmalz, mushiness; sentimentalism
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