sentimentalization
- noun
- /ˌsɛntɪˈmɛntəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
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sentimentalización
- Many movies today rely on sentimentalization to make the audience feel emotions without realistic portrayals.
Examples
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Aldaraca notes that one of the results of the sentimentalization of womanhood during the nineteenth century was, precisely, that women became "often perceived not as... individuals but as... genre" (66).
Academic text (1995) -
The sentimentalization of nature in his paintings makes them feel unreal and overly romantic.
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But might the Indian, who certainly was not burdened by the White ethnographer's "yearnings" for and "sentimentalization" of White culture, more directly seize this kind of power?
Academic text (1998) -
However, Guy Lawley claims in 'I Like Hate and I Hate Everything Else' that the 60s counterculture was arguably more easily assimilated by the mainstream than punk, mainly because it preached flowers and love, so it was prey to sentimentalization.
Academic text (2014) -
Critics argue that the sentimentalization of historical events can distort the truth and mislead future generations.
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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7.9
A tendency to show too much tender or nostalgic feeling about the past
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8.1
Making something look nicer or more special than it really is
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9.5
A feeling of too much fake emotion that seems overly sweet
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6.3
Being too emotional in a way that seems not sincere
Too much emotion in art or music that feels overdone
A feeling that is too emotional and seems false
A feeling that is too emotional in a story or film
Being overly emotional in a way that seems not sincere
A feeling of being too sad and emotional, often after drinking
Antonyms
How Sentimental
Surface Forms
Morphology
sentimentalization = sentimentalize (transparent) = sentiment + al + ize + ation
Standard nominalization formed by adding '-ation' to the verb 'sentimentalize', yielding 'the act or process of making sentimental'.
Etymology
Sentimentalization comes from sentiment, which comes from the old Latin word sentire meaning 'to feel', and it shares this root with common English words like sense and sensitive. So sentimentalization is the act of making something too full of feeling or romantic ideas, often ignoring real facts.