sentimentality
the quality or state of being sentimental or excessively sentimental.
an instance of being sentimental.
a sentimental act, gesture, expression, etc.
Origin of sentimentality
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Other words from sentimentality
- o·ver·sen·ti·men·tal·i·ty, noun
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How to use sentimentality in a sentence
Simon is a writer and television producer, best known for “The Wire,” and if you follow his Twitter feed, you know he’s not prone to sentimentality.
Anthony Bourdain’s messy, brilliant life comes into focus in a new oral biography | Tim Carman | September 30, 2021 | Washington PostWhile admittedly most of my go-to breakup albums tend to lean towards melancholy and sentimentality, Bannon’s brutally honest and raw energy is as effective as any slowed down ballad could ever be.
Cry Your Heart Out: The 11 Best Breakup Albums Ever Made | Peter Allen Clark | September 17, 2021 | TimeFor as attractive as these jobs will be, the hires won’t be easy to get right, not with all the pressure, politics and sentimentality involved.
College basketball’s blue bloods run cold during this NCAA tournament | Jerry Brewer | March 19, 2021 | Washington PostThere’s no hint of sentimentality in Fern or in Nomadland — only a need to remember and to keep living.
Giannis Antetokounmpo cashes in with his supermax deal, but sentimentality comes at a priceThe great escape is always the expectation now.
Giannis Antetokounmpo’s patience is a gift to Milwaukee. Don’t blow it, Bucks. | Jerry Brewer | December 16, 2020 | Washington Post
It was a coming-out story of sorts told with self-effacing un-sentimentality.
He once told me that he hated AIDS films because of the sentimentality.
Here, however, the novel ends with unearned sentimentality and cheap contrivance.
Ian McEwan's New Novel Keeps Life at Arm's Length | Nick Romeo | September 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“I have a horror of hysterics or sentimentality,” he explained.
The GOP’s Last Identity Crisis Remade U.S. Politics | Michael Wolraich | July 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut 30 years later the Civil Rights Movement smothered any remaining sentimentality under the banner of equality.
I should not allow inane sentimentality to influence me: it is beneath the revolutionist.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanI startled a passing cabman into interest by laughing aloud at that magnificent and characteristic sentimentality.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George WellsHe alone in French art inclines a little, in his tearful sentimentality, to the Romantic school of Dsseldorf.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) | Richard MutherAnd this, indeed, contrasted strangely with his former abandon, and with the customary gush of German sentimentality.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII | John LordWe can see how the indiscriminate preaching of such a formula would open the flood-gates of sentimentality and fraud.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton Sinclair
British Dictionary definitions for sentimentality
/ (ˌsɛntɪmɛnˈtælɪtɪ) /
the state, quality, or an instance of being sentimental
an act, statement, etc, that is sentimental
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