Besotted vs Maudlin - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between besotted and maudlin

is that besotted is infatuated while maudlin is affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.

As a verb besotted

is (besot).

As a noun maudlin is

(obsolete|christianity) the magdalene; (mary magdalene).

besotted

English

Alternative forms

* besotten

Adjective

(en adjective)

infatuated

intellectually or morally blinded

intoxicated

Synonyms

* See also * smitten with

Verb

(head)

(besot)

Derived terms

* besottedly * besottedness

Anagrams

maudlin

English

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete, Christianity) The Magdalene; (Mary Magdalene).

* c. 1400 , (trans.), The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ :

for alle they wor?chipden hir ?ouereynly / as worthy was / but ?pecially Mawdelayne / that wolde neuere departe fro hir.

* 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 186:

Common Maudlin have somewhat long and narrow leaves, snipped about the edges.

(obsolete) A Magdalene house; a brothel.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.

*around 1900 , O. Henry,

He was a drunkard, and had not known it. What he had fondly imagined was a pleasant exhilaration had been maudlin intoxication.

Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; mawkish, self-pitying.

*1961 ,

''On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least clean and honest. But the bath of self-pity, the wallow, the loathsome sticky-sweet pleasure of indulging it — that disgusts me.

(obsolete) Tearful, lachrymose.