Sentimentalism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A predilection for the sentimental.
  • n. An idea or expression marked by excessive sentiment.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A liking for sentimental things
  • n. An overly sentimental thing or condition; bathos or sentimentality
  • n. A view according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Tendency to be swayed by sentiment; affected sensibility or sentiment; mawkish susceptibility; specifically, the philosophy of Rousseau and others, which gave great weight to the impulses of a susceptible heart.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form
  • n. a predilection for sentimentality
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mushiness    sloppiness    drippiness    mawkishness    sentimentality   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sentimentality   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sentimentality    romanticism    naturalism    rationalism    bombast   
     
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