Sentimentality

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sentimentality \Sen`ti*men*tal"i*ty\, n. [CF. F.
     sentimentalit['e].]
     The quality or state of being sentimental.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  sentimentality
       n 1: falsely emotional in a maudlin way [syn: {mawkishness}, {drippiness}]
       2: extravagant or affected feeling or emotion

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "sentimentality":
     affection, affectionateness, amativeness, amorousness, bathos,
     bleeding heart, cloyingness, corn, corniness, demonstrativeness,
     ecstasy, emotionalism, enchantment, goatishness, goo, gushiness,
     hearts-and-flowers, horniness, lovelornness, lovesickness,
     maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby,
     namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania,
     oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, pathos, rapture,
     romanticism, sentiment, sentimentalism, sexiness, slop, sloppiness,
     slush, slushiness, soap opera, sob story, soppiness, stickiness,
     susceptibility, sweetness, sweetness and light, tackiness,
     tearfulness, tearjerker, tenderness, weepiness