Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being maudlin; manifestation of sickly sentimentality.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A maudlin state.

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  • noun A maudlin condition.

Etymologies

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maudlin +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • I was an angry young Californian back then & wanted to be aligned with those not easily cowed by media maudlinism.

    Why the NRA Should Try Being Reasonable 2007

  • At this precise period of his existence, Mr. Benjamin Allen had perhaps a greater predisposition to maudlinism than he had ever known before; the cause of which malady was briefly this.

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • For once, all the major acceptance speeches were more than adequate to the occasion, escaping the extremes of maudlinism and mock modesty.

    Welcome Back, Palmer: Travolta Returns in Be Cool 2004

  • For in such things sentiment runs too closely parallel to sentimentality, -- moderation becomes maudlinism, -- and one enters the caste of those who tell anecdotes of children, and the latest symptoms of their physical ills.

    Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

  • At this precise period of his existence, Mr. Benjamin Allen had perhaps a greater predisposition to maudlinism than he had ever known before; the cause of which malady was briefly this.

    The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841

  • At this precise period of his existence, Mr. Benjamin Allen had perhaps a greater predisposition to maudlinism than he had ever known before; the cause of which malady was briefly this.

    The Pickwick papers 1836

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