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▸ noun: (now uncommon) Depth.
▸ noun: (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
▸ noun: anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
▸ noun: banality: unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
▸ noun: immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic.
▸ noun: hyperbole: excessiveness
▸ noun: (literature, the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
▸ noun: (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
Similar:
mawkishness,
anticlimax,
overdramatics,
melodramatics,
oversentimentality,
bombast,
alembication,
overdramatization,
heroics,
overwroughtness,
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