noun
- the quality or state of being soft and pulpy
- excessive sentimentality or emotional display
Usage: informal
Examples
- The mushiness of the overripe banana made it perfect for baking bread.
- After sitting in the rain, the cardboard box had lost all structure due to mushiness.
- She couldn’t stand the mushiness of romantic comedies and preferred action films.
- The mushiness of his apology seemed insincere to his friends.
- The vegetables’ mushiness indicated they had been overcooked.
- Critics dismissed the novel’s emotional mushiness as manipulative.
- The mushiness of the wet soil made walking difficult.