maudlinism

This, without ever resorting to the Very Special Episode maudlinism of a “Diff’rent Strokes,” “Blossom” or “Saved by the Bell.”

Suggested synonyms for the word include not only sentimentalism, but mawkishness, maudlinism, melodramatics, mushiness – a host of “m” words to make the whole idea quite unappealing.

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.

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.