maudlinism
English
Etymology
maudlin + -ism
Noun
maudlinism (countable and uncountable, plural maudlinisms)
- A maudlin condition.
- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
- At this precise period of his existence, Mr. Benjamin Allen had perhaps a greater predisposition to maudlinism than he had ever known before […]
- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers