Difference between Sentimental and Mawkish

What is the difference between Sentimental and Mawkish?

Sentimental as an adjective is characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion while Mawkish as an adjective is feeling sick, queasy.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion derived from emotion rather than reason romantic

Example sentence: I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Feeling sick, queasy.Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.

We hope you now know whether to use Sentimental or Mawkish in your sentence.