Synonyms and related words :
bathetic, beery, cloying, gooey, gushing, hankering, homesick, honing, languishing, longing, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, namby-pamby, nostomanic, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, pining, romantic, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, sloppy, soft, sticky, tear-jerking, teary, wishful, wistful, yearnful, yearning