didacticism, sappiness, sentimentality, pathos, corniness, maudlin, archness, triteness, staginess, facetiousness, bathos, wistfulness, knowingness, pretentiousness, melancholy, lugubriousness, insipidity, moroseness, conventionality, mournfulness, wryness, poeticism, melodrama, ponderousness, ickiness, abjection, cheesiness, impishness, schmaltz, mushiness, ruefulness, sentimentalism, impassivity, theatricality, melodramatics, creepiness, grandiloquence, chirpiness, grisliness, superciliousness, artifice, slyness, metafiction, plaintiveness, dreaminess, inwardness, tawdriness, ingenuousness, carnality, sheepishness, artificiality, pretension, affectless, daftness, sunniness, pompousness, shapelessness, acerbity, stylisation, salaciousness, puerility, incredulousness, pensiveness, saccharine, grotesquerie, blankness, earnestness, banality, misanthropy, lifelessness, unintelligibility, cloy, drollness, girlishness, blandness, brassiness, tearjerking, nasality, jaggedness, winsomeness, melancholia, bashfulness, vapidity, nabokovian, sordidness, poignancy, grand guignol, wittiness, insipidness, profundity, unworldliness, kinkiness, gawkiness, grimness, glibness, affectations, slightness, mundaneness, absurdism, ghostliness, grotesqueness, irascibility, affectation, nastiness, naughtiness, silliness, braggadocio, cant, foolishness, histrionics, humbug, indulgence, mysteriousness, sloppiness, twaddle, vulgarity, waywardness, weirdness, awkwardness, bombast

mushiness, schmaltz, schmalz

emotionalism, emotionality, sentimentality

bathos, sentimentality