maudlinism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

maudlin +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

maudlinism (countable and uncountable, plural maudlinisms)

  1. A maudlin condition.
    • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
      At this precise period of his existence, Mr. Benjamin Allen had perhaps a greater predisposition to maudlinism than he had ever known before […]
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