| 单词 | sentimentality |
| 释义 | sentimentality (once / 2987 pages) n Sentimentality is a quality of being overly, dramatically emotional — sad or loving or nostalgic. Your sentimentality on her eightieth birthday might make your down-to-earth grandmother roll her eyes. When your emotions go overboard, becoming a little theatrical or false, that's sentimentality. A person's sentimentality might come in handy if a job as a greeting card writer opens up, or a role in a community theater's production of "Les Misérables." Sentimentality comes from the adjective sentimental, which is rooted in the Medieval Latin sentimentum, "feeling, affection or opinion." WORD FAMILYsentimentality: sentimentalities+/presentiment: presentiments/sentiment: presentiment, sentimental, sentimentise, sentimentize, sentiments/sentimental: sentimentalest, sentimentalise, sentimentalism, sentimentality, sentimentalize, sentimentally, unsentimental/sentimentalise: sentimentalisation, sentimentalised, sentimentalises, sentimentalising/sentimentalism: sentimentalisms, sentimentalist/sentimentalist: sentimentalists/sentimentalization: sentimentalizations/sentimentalize: sentimentalization, sentimentalized, sentimentalizes, sentimentalizing/unsentimental: unsentimentally USAGE EXAMPLESThere was no sentimentality Saturday in a game that turned ugly late. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) To its partial credit, the show resists this easy sentimentality. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) It’s easy to become cynical about our annual onslaught of Christmas kitsch, to resent the way seasonal sentimentality is used as a sales tactic. Slate(Dec 23, 2016) 1n falsely emotional in a maudlin way Syn|Hypo|Hyper drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sloppiness, soupiness corn something sentimental or trite schmaltz, schmalz, shmaltz(Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music sentimentalisma predilection for sentimentality emotionalism, emotionality emotional nature or quality 2n extravagant or affected feeling or emotion Hypo|Hyper bathos, mawkishness insincere pathos sentiment tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion |
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