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sentimentality|ˌsɛntɪmɛnˈtælɪtɪ|
[f. sentimental a. + -ity.]
The quality of being sentimental; affectation of sensibility, exaggerated insistence upon the claims of sentiment.
1770Monthly Rev. 181 In a fit of tenderness and sentimentality. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. xvii. 436 She [Chaucer's Prioress] has even the false pity and sentimentality of many modern ladies. 1813Byron Jrnl. 8 Dec. in Sheridaniana 229 Lord Holland told me a curious piece of sentimentality in Sheridan. 1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 158 The attainment of pure sentimentality in art. 1887Lowell Old Eng. Dramat. (1892) 128 His plays seem to me now to be chiefly remarkable for that filigree-work of sentiment which we call sentimentality.
b. pl. Sentimental notions.
1828Carlyle Misc., Burns (1840) I. 335 Here are..no hollow fantastic sentimentalities. 1847Fraser's Mag. XXXVI. 525 Worn-out sentimentalities of the rose and nightingale. 1878H. S. Leigh Town Garland 205 The editors..They're all of them eager For sentimentalities put into rhyme. |