sentimentalism

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

romanticism mush emotion sentiment sensibility sentimental nostalgia melodrama pathos sentimentality slush reminiscence bathos schmaltz emotionalism
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Antonyms

evil hostility hatred restraint indifference bitterness
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Hypernyms

expression formulation sentimentality sloppiness mawkishness mushiness

Hyponyms

mush slop treacle glop

Examples

Our 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

Close letter words and terms

sentimentalisation sentimentalise sentimentaliser sentimentalist sentimentalistic sentimentality