bathos
bleeding heart
cloyingness
doughiness
flabbiness
fleshiness
goo
hearts-and-flowers
mashiness
maudlinness
mawkishness
mush
namby-pamby
namby-pambyism
namby-pambyness
nostalgia
nostomania
oversentimentalism
oversentimentality
pastiness
pithiness
pulpiness
pulpousness
romanticism
sentiment
sentimentalism
sentimentality
slop
sloppiness
slush
soap opera
sob story
softness
sponginess
squashiness
succulence
sweetness and light
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