mawkishnessn.

Brit.

/ˈmɔːkᵻʃnᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈmɔkɪʃnᵻs/,

/ˈmɑkɪʃnᵻs/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mawkish adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < mawkish adj. + -ness suffix.

†1.

a. Nausea, sickness, queasiness. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > nausea

wlatingc725

unlusteOE

abominationa1398

flatingnessa1398

indignation1398

wambling1398

wlatness1398

nausea?a1425

walmingc1440

loathsomeness1536

qualming1565

subversion of the stomach1569

queasiness1576

pukishness1581

squeamishnessa1586

distaste1598

nausiness1598

wamble1603

sickness1604

distasting1605

distasture1611

nauseation1628

nauseousness1628

qualmishness1643

nauseating1651

crop-sickness1654

squeasinessa1660

mawkishness1670

qualminess1778

wambliness1900

icky1969

1670 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) ii. 102 The higher any one sit within the ship, the motion of it affects him the more, and cause his giddinesse and mawkishnesse to be the greater.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Mawkishness,..Sickness at the Stomach, Squeamishness.

1757 L. Carter Diary 9 Nov. (1965) I. 188 My own mawkishness together with the constant illness of one Child or another has prevented my doing much business.

b. Dullness of spirits, ennui. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun]

sada1200

fastidiuma1398

irkingc1400

irksomeness1435

tediousness1482

tediation1485

annuisance1502

weariness1526

wearisomenessa1568

irk1570

languor1596

tedification1616

tedium1662

ennui1758

dullery1841

boredom1853

mawkishness1861

fed-'upness1910

mouldiness1916

browned-offness1938

noia1944

1824 Examiner 595/1 A proper exquisite must be able to..carry with him a general aspect of vigour in repose. This, I conceive, must be a great deal more like bucks and beaux of the time of Elizabeth, than the languid mawkishness of the loungers [of the present time].

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. v. 88 All the companionship of boating and cricketing..won't keep him from many a long hour of mawkishness.

2. Nauseating or sickly flavour; insipidity. Also figurative. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [noun]

wearishnessa1398

unsavouriness1422

tastelessness1600

flashinessa1603

wallowishness1603

insipidity1611

insipidnessa1631

deadness1707

flatness1707

mawkishness1727

walshness1808

ditchwateriness1840

savourlessness1841

blandness1846

silence1879

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Mawkishness,..a nauseous Taste.

1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 315 Wines should have a taste free from mawkishness, and indicative of instability.

1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter II. 70 Their music was sweet to mawkishness.

1887 W. Beatty-Kingston Mus. & Manners II. 308 ‘White beer’, a liquor of paramount mawkishness.

3. Feeble or sickly sentimental character; excessive sentimentality.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [noun]

sentiment1747

sentimentality1770

mawkishness1796

sensiblerie1815

sentimentalism1818

sloppiness1828

morbidezza1833

milk-and-wateriness1834

maudlin1838

soothing syrup1839

emotionalism1846

stickiness1864

slop1866

mushiness1868

saccharinity1868

sympatheticism1884

hearts and flowers1911

lovey-doveyness1923

schmaltz1934

goop1950

goo1951

schmaltziness1953

gloop1957

cheesiness1963

soupiness1963

soft-centredness1967

soppiness1974

1796 F. Burney Camilla V. ix. iii. 90 Any thing is better than mawkishness. I always preferred being flogged for a frolic, to being told I was a good boy.

1814 Ld. Byron Jrnl. 6 Mar. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1974) III. 247 C...abused the ‘mawkishness of the Quarterly Review of Grimm's Correspondence’... God he knows what might have been engendered from such a malaprop.

1840 J. H. Newman Church of Fathers xv. 284 He is..as removed from softness and mawkishness..as any bishop among them.

1870 Appletons' Jrnl. 28 May 607 Throughout the work the fervor of youthful passion is happily expressed without any thing like mawkishness or sentimentality.

1935 M. Anderson Winterset ii. 83 I interrupt a love scene, I believe. We can do without your adolescent mawkishness.

1961 G. Woodcock in R. Brown & D. Bennett Anthol. Canad. Lit. in Eng. (1982) I. 592 There is.., throughout The Watch that Ends the Night, a suave mawkishness in talking about sex which amounts almost to diplomatic evasion.

1991 J. Richardson Life of Picasso I. xvi. 264 Like Dickens, Picasso could make mawkishness work for him, but there is more to these gouaches than that.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mawkishness
释义	mawkishnessn. Brit. /ˈmɔːkᵻʃnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈmɔkɪʃnᵻs/, /ˈmɑkɪʃnᵻs/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mawkish adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < mawkish adj. + -ness suffix. †1. a. Nausea, sickness, queasiness. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > nausea wlatingc725 unlusteOE abominationa1398 flatingnessa1398 indignation1398 wambling1398 wlatness1398 nausea?a1425 walmingc1440 loathsomeness1536 qualming1565 subversion of the stomach1569 queasiness1576 pukishness1581 squeamishnessa1586 distaste1598 nausiness1598 wamble1603 sickness1604 distasting1605 distasture1611 nauseation1628 nauseousness1628 qualmishness1643 nauseating1651 crop-sickness1654 squeasinessa1660 mawkishness1670 qualminess1778 wambliness1900 icky1969 1670 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) ii. 102 The higher any one sit within the ship, the motion of it affects him the more, and cause his giddinesse and mawkishnesse to be the greater. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Mawkishness,..Sickness at the Stomach, Squeamishness. 1757 L. Carter Diary 9 Nov. (1965) I. 188 My own mawkishness together with the constant illness of one Child or another has prevented my doing much business. b. Dullness of spirits, ennui. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] sada1200 fastidiuma1398 irkingc1400 irksomeness1435 tediousness1482 tediation1485 annuisance1502 weariness1526 wearisomenessa1568 irk1570 languor1596 tedification1616 tedium1662 ennui1758 dullery1841 boredom1853 mawkishness1861 fed-'upness1910 mouldiness1916 browned-offness1938 noia1944 1824 Examiner 595/1 A proper exquisite must be able to..carry with him a general aspect of vigour in repose. This, I conceive, must be a great deal more like bucks and beaux of the time of Elizabeth, than the languid mawkishness of the loungers [of the present time]. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. v. 88 All the companionship of boating and cricketing..won't keep him from many a long hour of mawkishness. 2. Nauseating or sickly flavour; insipidity. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [noun] wearishnessa1398 unsavouriness1422 tastelessness1600 flashinessa1603 wallowishness1603 insipidity1611 insipidnessa1631 deadness1707 flatness1707 mawkishness1727 walshness1808 ditchwateriness1840 savourlessness1841 blandness1846 silence1879 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Mawkishness,..a nauseous Taste. 1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 315 Wines should have a taste free from mawkishness, and indicative of instability. 1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter II. 70 Their music was sweet to mawkishness. 1887 W. Beatty-Kingston Mus. & Manners II. 308 ‘White beer’, a liquor of paramount mawkishness. 3. Feeble or sickly sentimental character; excessive sentimentality. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [noun] sentiment1747 sentimentality1770 mawkishness1796 sensiblerie1815 sentimentalism1818 sloppiness1828 morbidezza1833 milk-and-wateriness1834 maudlin1838 soothing syrup1839 emotionalism1846 stickiness1864 slop1866 mushiness1868 saccharinity1868 sympatheticism1884 hearts and flowers1911 lovey-doveyness1923 schmaltz1934 goop1950 goo1951 schmaltziness1953 gloop1957 cheesiness1963 soupiness1963 soft-centredness1967 soppiness1974 1796 F. Burney Camilla V. ix. iii. 90 Any thing is better than mawkishness. I always preferred being flogged for a frolic, to being told I was a good boy. 1814 Ld. Byron Jrnl. 6 Mar. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1974) III. 247 C...abused the ‘mawkishness of the Quarterly Review of Grimm's Correspondence’... God he knows what might have been engendered from such a malaprop. 1840 J. H. Newman Church of Fathers xv. 284 He is..as removed from softness and mawkishness..as any bishop among them. 1870 Appletons' Jrnl. 28 May 607 Throughout the work the fervor of youthful passion is happily expressed without any thing like mawkishness or sentimentality. 1935 M. Anderson Winterset ii. 83 I interrupt a love scene, I believe. We can do without your adolescent mawkishness. 1961 G. Woodcock in R. Brown & D. Bennett Anthol. Canad. Lit. in Eng. (1982) I. 592 There is.., throughout The Watch that Ends the Night, a suave mawkishness in talking about sex which amounts almost to diplomatic evasion. 1991 J. Richardson Life of Picasso I. xvi. 264 Like Dickens, Picasso could make mawkishness work for him, but there is more to these gouaches than that. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1670
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