Sentimentality
noun
The quality of being expressive of gentle or heightened emotions.
His poetry is filled with an intense level of sentimentality that moves every reader.
Often appears as...
- overflowing sentimentality
- pure sentimentality
noun
The act of showing, expressing, or being sentimental in an excessive or mawkish way.
The sentimentality of the movie’s ending was too much for some critics.
Often appears as...
- extreme sentimentality
- surprising sentimentality
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Disapproving
noun
The quality of being expressive of gentle or heightened emotions.
His poetry is filled with an intense level of sentimentality that moves every reader.
Often appears as...
- overflowing sentimentality
- pure sentimentality
noun
The act of showing, expressing, or being sentimental in an excessive or mawkish way.
The sentimentality of the movie’s ending was too much for some critics.
Often appears as...
- extreme sentimentality
- surprising sentimentality
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Expressive Emotions
Used when emotions are deeply expressed, often in a touching or genuine way.
The sentimentality in her voice when she spoke of her grandmother struck everyone's heart.
Pro Tip 2/3Heightened Affection
Shows strong feelings of love or fondness, appropriate in personal or emotionally driven text.
His sentimentality towards his childhood home brought tears to his eyes.
Pro Tip 3/3Artistic Expression
Often found in creative works like poetry, music, or art to evoke strong feelings.
The painter's sentimentality was evident in the warm colors and tender scenes depicted.
Pro Tip 1/3Expressive Emotions
Used when emotions are deeply expressed, often in a touching or genuine way.
The sentimentality in her voice when she spoke of her grandmother struck everyone's heart.
Pro Tip 2/3Heightened Affection
Shows strong feelings of love or fondness, appropriate in personal or emotionally driven text.
His sentimentality towards his childhood home brought tears to his eyes.
Pro Tip 3/3Artistic Expression
Often found in creative works like poetry, music, or art to evoke strong feelings.
The painter's sentimentality was evident in the warm colors and tender scenes depicted.
Pro Tip 1/3Expressive Emotions
Used when emotions are deeply expressed, often in a touching or genuine way.
The sentimentality in her voice when she spoke of her grandmother struck everyone's heart.
Pro Tip 2/3Heightened Affection
Shows strong feelings of love or fondness, appropriate in personal or emotionally driven text.
His sentimentality towards his childhood home brought tears to his eyes.
Pro Tip 3/3Artistic Expression
Often found in creative works like poetry, music, or art to evoke strong feelings.
The painter's sentimentality was evident in the warm colors and tender scenes depicted.
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The new American Dream PIPE...
the white picket fence. And even today, we see a white picket fence and we think success, self-possession. But when you strip away the sentimentality, what it really does is divides us. Many Americans are rejecting the white picket fence and the kind of highly privatized life that happened within it,
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The Secret World of...
sentimentality here and this female will mate with many males and lay many hundreds of eggs in the few short weeks of their outer life a spring moves into early summer a steady stream of coral combatants arrive at the mating floors
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The real meaning of soul...
it seems we'd have a handle on it we talk a beautiful soul lost souls soul food soul mates and yet somehow the more we talk the greater the risk of falling into cliche there's an easy sentimentality to the idea of someone
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The new American Dream PIPE...
the white picket fence. And even today, we see a white picket fence and we think success, self-possession. But when you strip away the sentimentality, what it really does is divides us. Many Americans are rejecting the white picket fence and the kind of highly privatized life that happened within it,
Video examples
The Secret World of...
sentimentality here and this female will mate with many males and lay many hundreds of eggs in the few short weeks of their outer life a spring moves into early summer a steady stream of coral combatants arrive at the mating floors
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The real meaning of soul...
it seems we'd have a handle on it we talk a beautiful soul lost souls soul food soul mates and yet somehow the more we talk the greater the risk of falling into cliche there's an easy sentimentality to the idea of someone
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Quote examples
Kristina McMorris
American Author
On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world.
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Jim Nantz
American Entertainer
The sentimentality that people see and hear in my commentary and sometimes ridicule, parody or just don't like - that's okay. We're all wired differently. I think about that a lot. I can't explain it. That's just what runs through my blood. It's just the way I look at the world.
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Lesley Sharp
English Actress
With adoption, there is a whole range of experiences, and a lot of it goes under the radar. There is too much icky stuff about it - all this stuff about people reunited, a sickly sentimentality about blood lines. For me, at least, life is much more ambiguous than that.
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Garth Ennis
Irish Writer
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.
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Porter Robinson
American Musician
I'm mostly known for writing electro and aggressive bangery house music. But before I started making electro, and while I was making electro, this sort of gushy, make-the-ravers-cry sort of sentimentality is so important to me.
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Maya Angelou
American Poet
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.
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Greta Gerwig
American Actress
One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.
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Simon Beaufoy
British Writer
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.
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Lasse Hallstrom
Swedish Director
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
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William S. Burroughs
American Writer
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
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Kristina McMorris
American Author
On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world.
Quote examples
Jim Nantz
American Entertainer
The sentimentality that people see and hear in my commentary and sometimes ridicule, parody or just don't like - that's okay. We're all wired differently. I think about that a lot. I can't explain it. That's just what runs through my blood. It's just the way I look at the world.
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Lesley Sharp
English Actress
With adoption, there is a whole range of experiences, and a lot of it goes under the radar. There is too much icky stuff about it - all this stuff about people reunited, a sickly sentimentality about blood lines. For me, at least, life is much more ambiguous than that.
Quote examples
Garth Ennis
Irish Writer
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.
Quote examples
Porter Robinson
American Musician
I'm mostly known for writing electro and aggressive bangery house music. But before I started making electro, and while I was making electro, this sort of gushy, make-the-ravers-cry sort of sentimentality is so important to me.
Quote examples
Maya Angelou
American Poet
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.
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Greta Gerwig
American Actress
One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.
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Simon Beaufoy
British Writer
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.
Quote examples
Lasse Hallstrom
Swedish Director
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
Quote examples
William S. Burroughs
American Writer
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
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