SCHWARMEREI
noun, excessive sentiment
Frank Capra's films, such as It's a Wonderful Life, are so loaded with populist schwarmerei that some critics called them "Capra-corn."
Schwarmerei in 1845, the editors of the Edinburgh Review felt compelled to use the German Schwarmerei to describe fanatical enthusiasm because the concept seemed so foreign to them. In commenting on the writings of German critic and dramatist Gotthold Lessing, they declared Schwarmerei to be "untranslatable, because the thing itself is un-English." That German word derives from the verb schwarmen, which means not only "to be enthusiastic" but "to swarm" (it was used to refer to bees), and its ancestors were part of Old High German.
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