sentimentality
noun
the quality or state of being sentimental or excessively sentimental.
sentimentalities
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pluralof sentimentality.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Forward-facing as ever, Ferry does admit that organizing the book itself, and sitting with the wide range of lyrics he’d penned over the years, did provide him with small regrets and sentimentalities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022
Leaders of these behemoths have long spoken in ambitious, gauzy sentimentalities about a broadly progressive future.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2016
Our own sentimentalities will be twice removed before long.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2016
There are two or three big sentimentalities here.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2013
You can’t be a modem woman and insist on the old sentimentalities.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
