noun [U,C]
1 a story, play or novel that is full of exciting events and in which the characters and emotions seem too exaggerated to be real; the action in such a play, etc:
a gripping Victorian melodrama * Instead of tragedy, we got melodrama.
2 events, behaviour, etc. which are exaggerated or extreme:
Her love of melodrama meant that any small problem became a crisis.
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