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sentimentality::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sloppiness, soupiness |
| Type of | emotionalism, emotionality |
| Has types | shmaltz, corn, schmaltz, schmalz, sentimentalism |
| Derivation | sentimental |
sentimentality::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | sentiment |
| Has types | mawkishness, bathos |
| Derivation | sentimental |
Examples of sentimentality
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Yes, there are contrived coincidences, some ciphers and a lot of sentimentality.
From the guardian.co.uk
Josh Schmidt's musical scoring blasts away any lingering hint of sentimentality.
From the suntimes.com
It is coming up to Christmas, so I am allowing myself a touch of sentimentality.
From the guardian.co.uk
This is a book which could easily have sunk under the weight of sentimentality.
From the telegraph.co.uk
No, I'm thinking of a business that puts the bottom line ahead of sentimentality.
From the stltoday.com
Given Joe Paterno's place in college history, sentimentality could play a role.
From the dallasnews.com
Has technology stripped society of the beauty of sentimentality and expression?
From the timesunion.com
It has a certain essence of sentimentality and happiness that fills one with joy.
From the sacbee.com
Sentimentality says Urlacher has earned the right to leave Chicago when he wants.
From the dailyherald.com
- Mawkishness: falsely emotional in a maudlin way
- Extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
- (sentimental) given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
- (sentimental) bathetic: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
- Sentimentality is both a literary device used to induce a tender emotional response disproportionate to the situation at hand, and thus to substitute heightened and generally uncritical feeling for normal ethical and intellectual judgments, and a heightened reader response willing to invest ...
- "Sentimental" is a Porcupine Tree song. It appears as the fourth track on the 2007 album Fear of a Blank Planet.
- Sentimental, the adjectival form of sentimentality, may also refer to:
- (Sentimental (deborah cox song)) Sentimental was the first single from Deborah Cox. The song tells about a person who used to cheat, because she didn't take her love seriously. Now that her lover has left her, she wants him. She says she doesn't think, unless it's about him. ...
- (Sentimental (Kenny G song)) "Sentimental" is a song by American Smooth jazz saxophonist Kenny G, from his sixth studio album Breathless which was released in 1992.
