SENTIMENTALISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sentimentalism mean? 

• SENTIMENTALISM (noun)
  The noun SENTIMENTALISM has 2 senses:

1. the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form

2. a predilection for sentimentality

  Familiarity information: SENTIMENTALISM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENTIMENTALISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("sentimentalism" is a kind of...):

expression; formulation (the style of expressing yourself)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sentimentalism"):

glop; mush; slop; treacle (writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A predilection for sentimentality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("sentimentalism" is a kind of...):

drippiness; mawkishness; mushiness; sentimentality; sloppiness; soupiness (falsely emotional in a maudlin way)

Derivation:

sentimentalist (someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality)