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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard luck story |
| Synonyms: | emotional appeal, hardship tale, heartbreaker, human interest, maudlin plea, pathos, schmaltz, sentimentalism, tale of woe, tearjerker |
| Main Entry: | nostalgia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasant remembrances |
| Synonyms: | fond memories, hearts and flowers, homesickness, longing, pining, reminiscence, remorse, schmaltz, sentimentality, tear-jerker, wistfulness, yearning |
| 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: | mush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentality |
| Synonyms: | affectation, gush*, maudlinism, mawkishness, romanticism, schmaltz, sentimentalism, superficiality, tear-jerker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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