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SENTIMENTALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Falsely emotional in a maudlin way
Synonyms:
drippiness; mawkishness; mushiness; sentimentality; sloppiness; soupiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sentimentality" is a kind of...):
emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sentimentality"):
corn (something sentimental or trite)
schmaltz; schmalz; shmaltz ((Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music)
sentimentalism (a predilection for sentimentality)
Derivation:
sentimental (effusively or insincerely emotional)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("sentimentality" is a kind of...):
sentiment (tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sentimentality"):
bathos; mawkishness (insincere pathos)
Derivation:
sentimental (given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality)
