Synonyms and related words :
aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, bale, bathos, bitterness, bowels of compassion, broken heart, brokenheartedness, cloyingness, compassionateness, crushing, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, extremity, gentleness, goo, grief, heartache, heartbreak, heartbrokenness, hearts-and-flowers, heartsickness, heartsoreness, heavy heart, infelicity, lenity, maudlinness, mawkishness, melancholia, melancholy, mercifulness, misery, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, prostration, romanticism, ruthfulness, sadness, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush, soap opera, sob story, softheartedness, suicidal despair, sweetness and light, tearjerker, tenderness, woe, wretchedness