Maudlin vs Modeling - What's the difference?
maudlin | modeling |
(obsolete, Christianity) The Magdalene; (Mary Magdalene).
* c. 1400 , (trans.), The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ :
* 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 186:
(obsolete) A Magdalene house; a brothel.
Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.
*around 1900 , O. Henry,
Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; mawkish, self-pitying.
*1961 ,
(obsolete) Tearful, lachrymose.
The art of sculpting models from clay etc. to create a representation of something.
The representation of depth in a two-dimensional image.
The profession of someone who models clothes.
(mathematics) The construction and use of a computer model of a physical system.
The learning of a new skill by copying other people.
As nouns the difference between maudlin and modeling
is that maudlin is (obsolete|christianity) the magdalene; (mary magdalene) while modeling is the art of sculpting models from clay etc to create a representation of something.As an adjective maudlin
is affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.As a verb modeling is
.maudlin
English
Noun
(en noun)- for alle they wor?chipden hir ?ouereynly / as worthy was / but ?pecially Mawdelayne / that wolde neuere departe fro hir.
- Common Maudlin have somewhat long and narrow leaves, snipped about the edges.
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a drunkard, and had not known it. What he had fondly imagined was a pleasant exhilaration had been maudlin intoxication.
- ''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.