mushy

[muhsh-ee, moo sh-ee]

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adjective, mush·i·er, mush·i·est.

resembling mush; pulpy.

Informal. overly emotional or sentimental: mushy love letters.

Origin of mushy

First recorded in 1830–40; mush¹ + -y¹

Related formsmush·i·ly, adverbmush·i·ness, noun

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Related Words for mushiness

sentimentalism, sentiment, reminiscence, mawkishness, nostalgia, bathos, triteness, melodrama

Examples from the Web for mushiness

Contemporary Examples of mushiness

Mushiness on key church doctrines, the argument goes, threatens the very Catholic-ness of institutions like Notre Dame.
Obama's Catholic Conversion
John Hendren
May 16, 2009

Historical Examples of mushiness

Oliver was making a good argument with no mushiness about it, and he had a long-settled habit of appreciating Ollie's arguments.
The Preliminaries
Cornelia A. P. Comer

British Dictionary definitions for mushiness

mushy

adjective mushier or mushiest

soft and pulpy

informal excessively sentimental or emotional

Derived Formsmushily, adverbmushiness, noun

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Word Origin and History for mushiness

1890, from mushy + -ness. Figurative sense of "sentimentality" attested from 1946.

mushy

adj.

"soft, pulpy, 1839; "sentimental," 1870; from mush (n.) + -y (2). Mush (n.) in a transferred sense of "sentimentality" is attested from 1908.