shmaltz vs mawkishness

shmaltz and mawkishness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, mawkishness is a hypernym of shmaltz; that is, mawkishness is a word with a broader meaning than shmaltz:

Other hypernyms of shmaltz include drippiness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness.

shmaltz (noun)	mawkishness (noun)
(Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music	falsely emotional in a maudlin way
	insincere pathos