Sentimentality

Word SENTIMENTALITY
Character 14
Hyphenation sen ti men tal i ty
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Sentimentality"

What do we mean by sentimentality?

The quality or condition of being sentimental, especially excessively or extravagantly so. noun

A sentimental idea or an expression of it. noun

The quality of being sentimental; affectation of fine or tender feeling or exquisite sensibility; sentimentalism. noun

The quality or state of being sentimental. noun

An act of being sentimental. noun

Extravagant or affected feeling or emotion noun

Falsely emotional in a maudlin way noun

An act or state of being sentimental.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Sentimentality

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The word "sentimentality" in example sentences

It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him. ❋ Unknown (2003)

There were ballads to make the heart beat fast, and one little tragedy, _The Blot in the 'Scutcheon_, which, though not over-disposed to what he called sentimentality, I could not read without tears. ❋ Edwin Watts Chubb (1912)

This my swashbuckler misnames sentimentality -- and thus I feel that he always tends to admire the wrong qualities, because he condones even what he calls sentimentality in one whom he chooses to admire. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

Carl Jung said that sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The great Irish writer James Joyce said that sentimentality is unearned emotion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I like it when old farts like Kristof remind people that wallowing in sentimentality with Little Lord Fauntleroy is just as fun today as it was back when it was written. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)

In the postwar years, that combination of pathos, a certain sentimentality and a spirit of resilience endeared him to the British public and probably went a long way to explaining his popularity in Albania. ❋ Stephanie Merritt (2010)

But scientists live to reduce the seemingly irreducible, and sentimentality is off-limits in the lab. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At the center of this code, or deeply embedded within the logic of sentimentality, is the work it does in building and maintaining the boundaries defining of gender. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Good god, this sappy sentimentality is not becoming of a follower of the Sith. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Personalistic sentimentality is understood to be a favorable marketing condition for writings that are believed to be about personal sentiment; such marketing conditions promote the circulation of rumors, the enjoyment of gossip, and the hedonistic substitution of personal feelings for the harder-edged meanings of L. E.L.'s professionally manufactured verbal art. ❋ Unknown (2000)

It may seem almost indecent for a lawyer to speak about sentiment, (Laughter.) but lawyers themselves are as sentimental as anybody else, and I feel that sentiment that does not degenerate into sentimentality is probably the biggest thing in the world. ❋ Unknown (1928)

In place of "romantic" I might have used the word "sentimental"; but in the first place that word fails to indicate the essentially romantic nature of love, on which I have just dwelt; and secondly, it also is liable to be misunderstood, because of its unfortunate association with the word sentimentality, which is a very different thing from sentiment. ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)

"I know that in most of your friendships convenience and self-interest reign paramount over what you call sentimentality; and yet you choose for your friend this Carrington, whom no one knows; and who is, you tell me, even poorer than yourself. ❋ Unknown (1875)

So that kind of sentimentality, which is perhaps understandable, didn't seem to be reflected in the people that were polled. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The beauty of the programme is that it doesn’t descend into maudlin sentimentality as a substitute for real feeling, and it doesn’t seek to let itself off the hook. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Americans are apparently particularly prone to this sentimental conceit: Ann Douglas’s classic, The Feminization of American Culture, about the 19th century shift to a popular culture of cheap sentimentality, is a useful primer in this regard. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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