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sentimentalism

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sen·ti·men·tal·ism  (snt-mntl-zm)
n.
1. A predilection for the sentimental.
2. An idea or expression marked by excessive sentiment.
senti·mental·ist n.
sentimentalism
an excessive indulgence in sentiment or emotionalism, predominance of feeling over reason and intellect, as the death scene of Little Nell in Dickens’s Old Curiosity Shop. — sentimentalist, n.
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Noun1.sentimentalism - the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form
glop, treacle, mush, slop - writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
formulation, expression - the style of expressing yourself; "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared"
2.sentimentalism - a predilection for sentimentality
sentimentality, drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness - falsely emotional in a maudlin way
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It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation.
The Communist Manifesto by Marx, Karl & Engles, Frederick View in context
Romanticism showed itself partly in the supremacy of the Sentimental Comedy and in the great share taken by Sentimentalism in the development of the novel, of both of which we shall speak hereafter; but its fullest and most steadily progressive manifestation was in non-dramatic poetry.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
I suppose they were exercis ing and developing their racial sentimentalism by the means of that dummy.
Falk - A Reminiscence by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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