The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maudlinism
Maudlinism \Maud"lin*ism\, n.
A maudlin state.
--Dickens.
Wiktionary
maudlinism
n. A maudlin condition.
Usage examples of "maudlinism".
But sitting here in comfort in the nation's capital, surrounded by memorials and mausoleums of one sort or another, he began to feel a certain unease, or perhaps it was a maudlinism brought on by a combination of the black wall and the alcohol.