Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentality |
| Synonyms: | anticlimax, comedown, letdown, melodrama, mush, schmaltz |
| Notes: | bathos is an abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace while pathos is a quality that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow |
| Main Entry: | figure of speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turn of expression |
| Synonyms: | adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device, comparison, conceit, device, echoism, ellipsis, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, oxymoron, parable, paradox, parallel, personification, proteron, rhetoric, sarcasm, satire, simile, synecdoche, trope, tropology, turn of phrase, understatement, way of speaking |
| Main Entry: | heavy heart |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sad heart |
| Synonyms: | aching heart, agony of mind, bathos, bleeding heart, broken heart, heartache, heaviness of heart, pathos |
| Main Entry: | sentimentality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentalism |
| Synonyms: | bathos, emotionalness, gushiness, maudlinness, mawkishness, melodrama, melodramatics, mushiness, nostalgia, reminiscence, sentiment, triteness |
| Main Entry: | sentimentality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extravagant in emotion |
| Synonyms: | bathos, hokum, schmaltz |
| Main Entry: | maudlinism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentality |
| Synonyms: | bathos, emotionalness, gushiness, maudlinness, mawkishness, melodrama, melodramatics, mushiness, nostalgia, reminiscence, sentiment, sentimentalism, triteness |
| Main Entry: | mawkishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentality |
| Synonyms: | bathos, emotionalness, gushiness, maudlinism, maudlinness, melodrama, melodramatics, mushiness, nostalgia, reminiscence, sentiment, sentimentalism, triteness |
| Main Entry: | mushiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentality |
| Synonyms: | bathos, emotionalness, gushiness, maudlinism, maudlinness, mawkishness, melodrama, melodramatics, nostalgia, reminiscence, sentiment, sentimentalism, triteness |
| Main Entry: | sappiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentality |
| Synonyms: | bathos, emotionalness, gushiness, maudlinism, maudlinness, mawkishness, melodrama, melodramatics, mushiness, nostalgia, reminiscence, sentiment, sentimentalism, triteness |
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