ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Sentimentality

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Sentimentality is a noun meaning An act or state of being sentimental.

Meaning

An act or state of being sentimental.

Example Sentences

Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with “Beaches”-level platitudes and sentimentality.

Word Forms

Synonyms for sentimentality

Depending on context, synonyms include mawkishness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mawkishness, mawkish, bunch, sentimentalization, sentimentalism, sentiment.

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