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SENTIMENTALIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sentimentalist mean?
• SENTIMENTALIST (noun)
The noun SENTIMENTALIST has 1 sense:
1. someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality
Familiarity information: SENTIMENTALIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
romanticist; sentimentalist
Hypernyms ("sentimentalist" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Derivation:
sentimentalism (a predilection for sentimentality)
Context examples
A sentimentalist, he sneered, like Mr. Van Weyden.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
You must be happy, you sentimentalists, really and truly happy at dreaming and finding things good, and, because you find some of them good, feeling good yourself.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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