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gushing
CIDE DICTIONARY
gushing, a.
- Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
gushing
abundance, abundant, adulatory, affluent, amplitude, bathetic, beery, bland, blandishing, blarneying, buttery, cajoling, cloud of words, cloying, complimentary, confluent, copious, copiousness, coursing, courtierly, courtly, decurrent, defluent, diffluent, diffuse, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusive, diffusiveness, effusion, effusive, effusiveness, extravagance, extravagant, exuberance, exuberant, fair-spoken, fawning, fecund, fecundity, fertility, fine-spoken, flattering, flowing, fluency, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, formless, formlessness, fulsome, gooey, gulfy, gush, gushy, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, insincere, insinuating, logorrhea, macrology, maudlin, mawkish, mazy, mealymouthed, meandering, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, outpour, overflow, overflowing, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, palilogy, pleonasm, pleonastic, pouring, prodigal, prodigality, productive, productivity, profluent, profuse, profuseness, profusion, profusive, prolific, prolificacy, prolificity, racing, rampancy, rankness, redundancy, redundant, reiteration, reiterative, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitive, repetitiveness, romantic, running, rushing, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, serpentine, slimy, slobbering, slobbery, sloppy, sluggish, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, soapy, soft, soft-soaping, sticky, streaming, superabundance, superabundant, superfluity, superflux, surging, surgy, sycophantic, talkativeness, tautologous, tautology, tear-jerking, teary, teeming, teemingness, tidal, tirade, unctuous, vortical, wheedlingROGET THESAURUS
gushing
Feeling
N feeling, suffering, endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response, sympathy, impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense, warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence, fervor, fervency, heartiness, cordiality, earnestness, eagerness, empressement, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism, excitation of feeling, fullness of the heart, passion, ecstasy, blush, suffusion, flush, hectic, tingling, thrill, turn, shock, agitation, quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor, throb, throbbing, pulsation, palpitation, panting, trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment, state of excitement, feeling, sentient, sensuous, sensorial, sensory, emotive, emotional, of feeling, with feeling, warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive, keen, keen as a razor, trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic, impressive, deep, profound, indelible, deep felt, home felt, heartfelt, swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic, earnest, wistful, eager, breathless, fervent, fervid, gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming, boiling over, pervading, penetrating, absorbing, rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical, impetuous, impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with, penetrated with, seized with, imbued with, devoured by, wrought up, struck all of a heap, rapt, in a quiver, enraptured, heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore, at heart, con amore, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears, head over heels, the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the heart overflowing, the heart bursting, the heart breaking, the heart goes out, a heart as big as all outdoors (sympathy).Sensibility
N sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness, moral sensibility, impressibility, affectibility, susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity, mobility, vivacity, vivaciousness, tenderness, softness, sentimental, sentimentality, sentimentalism, excitability, fastidiousness, physical sensibility, sore point, sore place, where the shoe pinches, sensible, sensitive, impressible, impressionable, susceptive, susceptible, alive to, impassionable, gushing, warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted, tender as a chicken, soft, sentimental, romantic, enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive, excitable, oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned, fastidious, sensibly, to the quick, to the inmost core, mens aequa in arduis, pour salt in the wound.For further exploring for "gushing" in Webster Dictionary Online