sentimentalism
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- noun
- /ˌsɛntɪˈmɛntəlɪzəm/
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sentimentalismo
- What sells is sentimentalism, nostalgia, solemnity; what sells is kitsch.
Examples
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Burney's skepticism about interpretive acts stands in opposition to the ready certainty of moral sentimentalism usually found in the eighteenth-century novel of sensibility.
Academic text (2018) -
Heartwarming special interest stories play well during the natural sentimentalism that is prevalent nationwide during the season.
Blog text (14) -
The lens on which her sadness is imprinted is one of sentimentalism.
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In fact, I liked its pagan excesses, all the drinking and eating and sentimentalism, its anti-Puritanism.
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More recently, excessive sentimentalism has been seen as a form of feminine fetishism (Schor; Apter).
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The perspective of eternity gives itself up to sentimentalism, the mainspring of the politics of identity, and the perspective of the moment is captive to immediate political lusts.
Academic text (1995) -
The repudiation of sentimentalism by literary modernists had gendered overtones: it was an implicit rejection of a specifically feminine discourse.
Fiction book (1992) -
Many holiday movies are filled with sentimentalism, making audiences feel nostalgic for family gatherings.
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Her poetry is often criticized for its excessive sentimentalism, focusing on emotions rather than concrete imagery.
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The sentimentalism in his speech about old friendships brought tears to everyone's eyes.
Synonyms
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5.5
A way of showing too much emotion that seems false
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9.5
An overly emotional style in art like songs or films
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7.3
The act of showing very strong feelings, often more than needed
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9.5
A feeling of too much fake emotion that seems overly sweet
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Too much emotion that seems false
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Being too emotional in a way that seems not sincere
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8.4
A way of speaking or writing that sounds too sweet and not real
A feeling that is too emotional and seems false
Too sentimental and not sincere
Being overly emotional in a way that seems not sincere
A feeling of being too sad and emotional, often after drinking
Too much emotion in art or music that feels overdone
A feeling that is too emotional in a story or film
Antonyms
How Sentimental
Surface Forms
Morphology
sentimentalism = sentimental (transparent) = sentiment + al + ism
Formed by adding the productive nominalizing suffix '-ism' to 'sentimental', yielding a noun for a tendency or doctrine.
Etymology
Sentimentalism comes from sentiment, which goes back to Latin sentire 'to feel', and the ending -ism, which means a 'tendency' or 'system'. So sentimentalism is literally a 'tendency to feel', which explains why it means showing too much emotion, often tender sadness or missing the past.