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sentimentalisation |
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sentimentality
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| sentimentalize
| sentimentally
| sentimentise
| sentimentize
sentimentality
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sentimentality has 2 senses
- sentimentality(n = noun.attribute) drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sloppiness, soupiness - falsely emotional in a maudlin way; Array is a kind of emotionalism, emotionality
- sentimentality(n = noun.feeling) Array - extravagant or affected feeling or emotion; Array is a kind of sentiment
has particulars: corn, schmaltz, schmalz, shmaltz, sentimentalism
Derived form adjective sentimental2
has particulars: bathos, mawkishness
Derived form adjective sentimental1
CIDE DICTIONARY
sentimentality, n. [CF. F. sentimentalité.].
The quality or state of being sentimental. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
sentimentality
affection, affectionateness, amativeness, amorousness, bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, corn, corniness, demonstrativeness, ecstasy, emotionalism, enchantment, goatishness, goo, gushiness, hearts-and-flowers, horniness, lovelornness, lovesickness, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, pathos, rapture, romanticism, sentiment, sentimentalism, sexiness, slop, sloppiness, slush, slushiness, soap opera, sob story, soppiness, stickiness, susceptibility, sweetness, sweetness and light, tackiness, tearfulness, tearjerker, tenderness, weepinessROGET THESAURUS
sentimentality
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.
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