sentimentalityn.
/ˌsɛntɪmɛnˈtalɪti/ a. The quality of being sentimental; affectation of sensibility, exaggerated insistence upon the claims of sentiment.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [noun]
sentiment1747
sentimentality1770
mawkishness1796
sensiblerie1815
sentimentalism1818
sloppiness1828
morbidezza1833
milk-and-wateriness1834
maudlin1838
soothing syrup1839
emotionalism1846
stickiness1864
slop1866
mushiness1868
saccharinity1868
sympatheticism1884
hearts and flowers1911
lovey-doveyness1923
schmaltz1934
goop1950
goo1951
schmaltziness1953
gloop1957
cheesiness1963
soupiness1963
soft-centredness1967
soppiness1974
1770 Monthly Rev. 181 In a fit of tenderness and sentimentality.
1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. xvii. 436 She [Chaucer's Prioress] has even the false pity and sentimentality of many modern ladies.
1813 Ld. Byron Jrnl. 8 Dec. in Sheridaniana 229 Lord Holland told me a curious piece of sentimentality in Sheridan.
1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 158 The attainment of pure sentimentality in art.
a1891 J. R. Lowell Old Eng. Dramatists (1892) vi. 128 His plays seem to me now to be chiefly remarkable for that filigree-work of sentiment which we call sentimentality.
b. plural. Sentimental notions.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [noun] > sentimental notions
sentimentalities1828
1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 274 Here are..no hollow fantastic sentimentalities.
1847 Fraser's Mag. 36 525 Worn-out sentimentalities of the rose and nightingale.
1878 H. S. Leigh Town Garland 205 The editors..They're all of them eager For sentimentalities put into rhyme.
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