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Sentimental vs Mawkish - What's the difference?

sentimental | mawkish |

As adjectives the difference between sentimental and mawkish

is that sentimental is characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion while mawkish is feeling sick, queasy.

sentimental

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
  • derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment
  • romantic

    • Derived terms

    * sentimentalism * sentimentality * sentimentally

    Quotations

    * 1885 : , *: Are you in sentimental mood? *: I'll sigh with you. * 1944 : , *: Gonna take a Sentimental Journey, *: Gonna set my heart at ease. *: Gonna make a Sentimental Journey, *: to renew old memories.

    Anagrams

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    mawkish

    English

    Alternative forms

    * maukish (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Feeling sick, queasy.
  • (archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
  • Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
  • * 2014 August 11, , " Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide," New York Times
    • Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.

    Antonyms

    * (excessively or falsely sentimental) rational

    Synonyms

    * (excessively or falsely sentimental) cutesy, schmaltzy