mawkishness vs corn

corn vs mawkishness

mawkishness and corn both are nouns.

mawkishness is not a verb while corn is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mawkishness	Yes	No	No	No
corn	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, corn is a hyponym of mawkishness; that is, corn is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mawkishness:

mawkishness: falsely emotional in a maudlin way
corn: something sentimental or trite

Other hyponyms of mawkishness include schmaltz, schmalz, shmaltz, sentimentalism.

mawkishness (noun)	corn (noun)
falsely emotional in a maudlin way	something sentimental or trite
insincere pathos	ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
	whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn
	tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
	(Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland)
	the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
	a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes

mawkishness (verb)	corn (verb)
	preserve with large-grained rock salt
	feed (cattle) with corn

Difference between mawkishness and corn

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