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Sentimentalism

Related: emotion - feeling - kitsch - romanticism - sensibility - sensation - sentimental novel

Definition

• Characterized or swayed by sentiment.
• Affectedly or extravagantly emotional.

Resulting from or colored by emotion rather than reason or realism.

Appealing to the sentiments, especially to romantic feelings: sentimental music. sen'ti·men'tal·ly adv.

SYNONYMS sentimental, bathetic, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, romantic, schmaltzy, slushy, soppy. These adjectives mean excessively or insincerely emotional: a sentimental card; a bathetic novel; maudlin expressions of sympathy; mawkish sentiment; mushy effusiveness; a romantic adolescent; a schmaltzy song; slushy poetry; a soppy letter. --AHD

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