Mushiness

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mushiness
       n 1: a mushy pulpy softness
       2: (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music [syn: {schmaltz},
           {shmaltz}, {schmalz}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "mushiness":
     bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, doughiness, flabbiness,
     fleshiness, goo, hearts-and-flowers, mashiness, maudlinness,
     mawkishness, mush, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness,
     nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality,
     pastiness, pithiness, pulpiness, pulpousness, romanticism,
     sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush,
     soap opera, sob story, softness, sponginess, squashiness,
     succulence, sweetness and light, tearjerker