maudlinism

English

Etymology

maudlin +‎ -ism

Noun

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 […]