Maudlinism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A maudlin condition. countable, uncountable

    "At this precise period of his existence, Mr. Benjamin Allen had perhaps a greater predisposition to maudlinism than he had ever known before[…]"

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"At this precise period of his existence, Mr. Benjamin Allen had perhaps a greater predisposition to maudlinism than he had ever known before[…]"

Etymology

From maudlin + -ism.

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