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SENTIMENTALISM

• SENTIMENTALISM (noun)
The noun SENTIMENTALISM has 2 senses:

1. a sentimental expression or idea
2. a predilection for sentimentality

Familiarity information: SENTIMENTALISM used as a noun is rare.

• SENTIMENTALISM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A sentimental expression or idea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("sentimentalism" is a kind of...):

expression; formulation (the style of expressing yourself)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sentimentalism"):

mush; slop; treacle (an expression that is excessively sweet and sentimental)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

A predilection for sentimentality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("sentimentalism" is a kind of...):

drippiness; mawkishness; mushiness; sentimentality; sloppiness; soupiness (falsely emotional in a maudlin way)

"Rats desert a sinking ship."
(English proverb)
"Sharing and giving are the ways of God."
(Native American proverb, Sauk)
"The thief stole from the thief, God looked on and got astonished."
(Armenian proverb)
"To make your neighbor jealous, go to bed early and get up early."
(Corsican proverb)

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