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mushiness colloq.|ˈmʌʃɪnɪs|
[f. mushy a. + -ness.]
The condition of being soft or pulpy; also fig., sentimental character, weakness, sloppiness.
1890S. J. Duncan Soc. Departure 221 The unutterable mushiness of the ‘bullock's heart’ [fruit]. 1893‘M. Rutherford’ Cath. Furze II. xiv. 70 Partly this distressing weakness is due to the absence of a clear conviction that we are right;..but frequently it is simple mushiness of character. 1946A. L. Bacharach Brit. Music of our Time xv. 197 One is perhaps disconcerted by an harmonic mushiness—he was especially fond of the now much-abused chords of the seventh and ninth. 1962Yale Rev. June 540 Pound puts Joyce with Hueffer, diametrically opposite to ‘the softness and mushiness of the neo-symbolist movement’. |