'Sentimentality' definitions:
Definition of 'sentimentality'
(from WordNet)
noun
Falsely emotional in a maudlin way [syn: mawkishness, sentimentality, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness]
noun
Extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
Definition of 'Sentimentality'
From: GCIDE
- Sentimentality \Sen`ti*men*tal"i*ty\, n. [CF. F. sentimentalit['e].] The quality or state of being sentimental. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sentimentality'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affection,
- affectionateness,
- amativeness,
- amorousness,
- bathos,
- bleeding heart,
- cloyingness,
- corn,
- corniness,
- demonstrativeness,
- ecstasy,
- emotionalism,
- enchantment,
- goatishness,
- goo,
- gushiness,
- hearts-and-flowers,
- horniness,
- lovelornness,
- lovesickness,
- maudlinness,
- mawkishness,
- mush,
- mushiness,
- namby-pamby,
- namby-pambyism,
- namby-pambyness,
- nostalgia,
- nostomania,
- oversentimentalism,
- oversentimentality,
- pathos,
- rapture,
- romanticism,
- sentiment,
- sentimentalism,
- sexiness,
- slop,
- sloppiness,
- slush,
- slushiness,
- soap opera,
- sob story,
- soppiness,
- stickiness,
- susceptibility,
- sweetness,
- sweetness and light,
- tackiness,
- tearfulness,
- tearjerker,
- tenderness,
- weepiness