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Maudlin vs Modeling - What's the difference?

maudlin | modeling |

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

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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.
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    modeling

    Alternative forms

    * modelling

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
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