Noun
The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOur actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism. Sri Aurobindo
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching. Phillips Brooks
Our puny sentimentalism has caused us to forget that a human life is sacred only when it may be of some use to itself and to the world. Helen Keller
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. Reinhold Niebuhr
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. D. H. Lawrence
Our preceptors were gentlemen as well as scholars. There was not a grain of sentimentalism in the institution; on the other hand, the place was permeated by a profound sense of justice. Albert Jay Nock