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Definition of Mushiness
1. Noun. A mushy pulpy softness.
2. Noun. Falsely emotional in a maudlin way.
Generic synonyms: Emotionalism, Emotionality
Specialized synonyms: Corn, Schmaltz, Schmalz, Shmaltz, Sentimentalism
Derivative terms: Drippy, Mawkish, Mushy, Sentimental, Sloppy
Definition of Mushiness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being mushy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mushiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mushiness
Literary usage of Mushiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"mushiness in the Freezing Range.—What has just been said implies that the solution
must pass through a mushy stage in freezing, like the mushy stage of salt ..."
2. An Introduction to Modern Logic by Rupert Clendon Lodge (1920)
"That is to say, the mere apprehension of the mushiness at each stage of the ...
in taking in the wetness of the soil and the mushiness of the seeds, ..."
3. The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1921)
"... we had traveled into the night, and found ourselves on ice that owing to its
extreme thinness and mushiness had upon it black patches of damp snow. ..."
4. Camera (1907)
"We would not, of course, advocate a degeneration to the mushiness of the
impressionist, but there is a golden mean, and it would not hurt the artistic ..."
5. French Dramatists of the 19th Century by Brander Matthews (1901)
"... of woman M. Dumas is severe, and logical to the point of brutality: hitherto M.
Feuillet had been petting, and illogical to the verge of mushiness; ..."
6. How to Appreciate Prints by Frank Weitenkampf (1908)
"But when he reproduces an insipid picture like " Sunshine of Love," by Raoux, we
see how all this skill can approach to the lackadaisical mushiness of the ..."
7. The Illustrated Book: Notes on an Exhibition in the Print Gallery of the New by New York Public Library, Frank Weitenkampf (1919)
"... to mushiness. These "elegant accessions to the drawing-room table" included
as gift books even glorifications of Greenwood and Auburn cemeteries ! ..."
8. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1899)
"His bones and muscles 's hardly in it—they're just aches and pains; A half-way
sort of mushiness is answerin' him for brains; The fibres and the tissues ..."
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