lachrymosity

Incidentally, I've cracked it now, the lachrymosity factor.

Ed playing the track Lachrymosity acoustically after his gig at his studio.

While fainting in The Castle of Wolfenbach is excessive, lachrymosity is even more so.

Satta lays all this out with great deftness, his tone calibrated to avoid the tempting dangers of lachrymosity and the sneer.

And the idea that I resisted her desire to vamoose from my apartment, that I was unmoved when she burst into tears - how could I, an aficionado of opera, fail to respond to lachrymosity?- is a ridiculous exaggeration.