Synonyms and related words :
bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, doughiness, flabbiness, fleshiness, goo, hearts-and-flowers, mashiness, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, pastiness, pithiness, pulpiness, pulpousness, romanticism, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush, soap opera, sob story, softness, sponginess, squashiness, succulence, sweetness and light, tearjerker