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sentimentalism|sɛntɪˈmɛntəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. sentimental a. + -ism.]
1. The sentimental habit of mind; the disposition to attribute undue importance to sentimental considerations, or to be governed by sentiment in opposition to reason; the tendency to excessive indulgence in or insincere display of sentiment.
1817Byron Beppo li, How quickly would I..sell you, mix'd with western sentimentalism, Some samples of the finest Orientalism. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. ii. iii, If we pierce through that rosepink vapour of Sentimentalism, Philanthropy, and Feasts of Morals. 1849Robertson Serm. Ser. i. x. (1866) 181 The sentimentalism of youth. 1873Morley Rousseau xiv. II. 279 Such a faith is no rag of metaphysic floating in the sunshine of sentimentalism. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. xciii. III. 303 Very few of the Reformers advocate woman's suffrage, apparently because they are opposed to sentimentalism.
2. An idea or expression indicative of sentimentality.
1833F. A. Kemble Lett. in Rec. Girlhood (1878) III. 170 My zeal for the cause of its people is an ignorant sentimentalism. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xxi. iii. IX. 299 What is to be done with that elegant inane creature, and his vaporous sentimentalisms. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. ii. (1894) 39 It was of a piece with his [Rousseau's] other sentimentalisms. 1880McCarthy Own Times III. xli. 231 The..gushing sentimentalisms of a poet and a woman. |