In generalized use. Refined and tender emotion; exercise or manifestation of ‘sensibility’; emotional reflection or meditation; appeal to the tender…

The quality of being sentimental; affectation of sensibility, exaggerated insistence upon the claims of sentiment.

Feeble or sickly sentimental character; excessive sentimentality.

Excessively emotional behaviour; exaggerated or affected sensitivity; sentimentality.

The sentimental habit of mind; the disposition to attribute undue importance to sentimental considerations, or to be governed by sentiment in…

The state of being sloppy.

gen. Delicacy, softness, esp. in musical performance; sensibility, smoothness. Also occasionally with negative connotation: unwholesomeness…

That which is maudlin; weak or mawkish sentiment.

Of medical applications, drugs, etc.; spec. soothing powder (in quot. figurative); soothing syrup, a medicinal preparation supposed to calm fretful…

Emotional character or behaviour; esp. the tendency to indulge in or yield to emotion.

figurative. Excessive sweetness or sentimentality; mawkishness.

colloquial (originally U.S.). Sentimentality, affected sensibility.

The condition of being soft or pulpy; (figurative) weakness, sentimental character, lack of clarity or coherence.

sweetness.

sympathetic tendency, susceptibility to sympathy (used disparagingly).

(a) adj.(esp. overly or cloyingly) sentimental or romantic; (b) n. sentimental endearments; romantically pleasing circumstances, etc.; esp. (undue or…

the state of being lovey-dovey; excessive sentimentality.

colloquial. Extreme or excessive sentimentality, esp. in the arts or entertainment. Also: a film, music, etc., characterized by this.

Excessive or nauseating sentimentality; mawkishness. Also: nonsense, foolish talk.

A viscid or sticky substance. Also figurative, sickly sentiment, gush.

figurative. Writing, music, etc., characterized by cloying sentiment or clumsy execution; (hence) excessive sentiment. Cf. gloopy, adj. 2.

colloquial (originally U.S.). The quality or condition of being unsubtle, inauthentic, clichéd, or excessively sentimental; (in early use also)…

sentimentality.

sentimentality.

Mawkish sentiment, facile emotion.