DRIPPINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drippiness mean? 

• DRIPPINESS (noun)
  The noun DRIPPINESS has 2 senses:

1. the physical property of being soft and drippy

2. falsely emotional in a maudlin way

  Familiarity information: DRIPPINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRIPPINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The physical property of being soft and drippy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("drippiness" is a kind of...):

physical property (any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions)

Derivation:

drippy (wet with light rain)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Falsely emotional in a maudlin way

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

drippiness; mawkishness; mushiness; sentimentality; sloppiness; soupiness

Hypernyms ("drippiness" is a kind of...):

emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drippiness"):

corn (something sentimental or trite)

schmaltz; schmalz; shmaltz ((Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music)

sentimentalism (a predilection for sentimentality)

Derivation:

drippy (effusively or insincerely emotional)