MUSHINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mushiness mean? 

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

1. a mushy pulpy softness

2. falsely emotional in a maudlin way

  Familiarity information: MUSHINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSHINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mushy pulpy softness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

mushiness; pulpiness

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

softness (the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded)

Derivation:

mushy (having the consistency of mush)

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 ("mushiness" is a kind of...):

emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)

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

corn (something sentimental or trite)

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

sentimentalism (a predilection for sentimentality)

Derivation:

mushy (effusively or insincerely emotional)