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| 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: | drama |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turmoil in real life |
| Synonyms: | climax, comedy, crisis, dramatics, emotion, excitement, farce, histrionics, melodrama, scene, spectacle, tension, theatrics, tragedy |
| Main Entry: | dramatization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drama |
| Synonyms: | dramatics, entertainment, melodrama |
| Main Entry: | excitement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm; incitement |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, ado, adventure, agitation, animation, bother, buzz*, commotion, confusion, discomposure, disturbance, dither, drama, elation, emotion, excitation, feeling, ferment, fever, flurry, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat*, hubbub, hullabaloo*, hurry, hysteria, impulse, instigation, intoxication, kicks, melodrama, motivation, motive, movement, passion, perturbation, provocation, rage, stimulation, stimulus, stir, thrill, titillation, to-do, trepidation, tumult, turmoil, urge, warmth, wildness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, boredom, calm, calmness, dullness, lull, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | romance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fanciful story or narrative |
| Synonyms: | ballad, fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, idealization, idyll, legend, love story, lyric, melodrama, novel, story, tale, tear-jerker |
| Main Entry: | soap opera |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | serial broadcast drama |
| Synonyms: | daytime drama, daytime serial, daytime soap, melodrama, nighttime soap, serial, soap |
| Main Entry: | sentimentality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentalism |
| Synonyms: | bathos, emotionalness, gushiness, maudlinness, mawkishness, melodrama, melodramatics, mushiness, nostalgia, reminiscence, sentiment, triteness |
| 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 |
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