| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentalism |
| Synonyms: | bathos, emotionalness, gushiness, maudlinness, mawkishness, melodrama, melodramatics, mushiness, nostalgia, reminiscence, sentiment, triteness |
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a state of mind, often strong |
| Synonyms: | action, affection, appreciation, ardor, behavior, capacity, compassion, concern, cultivation, culture, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, emotion, empathy, faculty, fervor, fondness, heat, imagination, impression, intelligence, intensity, intuition, judgment, keenness, palpability, passion, pathos, pity, reaction, refinement, sensibility, sensitivity, sentiment, sentimentality, sharpness, spirit, sympathy, tangibility, taste, tenderness, understanding, warmth |
| Main Entry: | nostalgia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasant remembrances |
| Synonyms: | fond memories, hearts and flowers, homesickness, longing, pining, reminiscence, remorse, schmaltz, sentimentality, tear-jerker, wistfulness, yearning |
| Main Entry: | sentiment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emotion, belief |
| Synonyms: | affect, affectivity, attitude, bias, conception, conviction, disposition, emotionalism, eye, feeling, hearts and flowers, idea, inclination, inclining, judgment, leaning, mind, opinion, overemotionalism, partiality, passion, penchant, persuasion, position, posture, predilection, propensity, romanticism, sensibility, sentimentality, slant, softheartedness, tendency, tender feeling, tenderness, thought, view, way of thinking |
| Main Entry: | mush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drivel |
| Synonyms: | amorousness, flattery, sentimentality |
| Main Entry: | impressibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | susceptibility |
| Synonyms: | affectability, emotionality, flexibility, impressionability, perceptivity, plasticity, pliancy, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentimentality, susceptibleness, tenderness |
| Main Entry: | poignancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emotion |
| Synonyms: | feeling, pathos, sadness, sentimentality, unhappiness |
| Concept: | Feeling. |
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-nouns
feeling; suffering; endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response; sympathy (love); impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense., warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence; fervor, fervency; heartiness, cordiality; earnestness, eagerness; empressment, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism; excitation of feeling; fullness of the heart (disposition); passion (state of excitability); ecstasy, ectasy (pleasure)., blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.
-verbs
feel; receive an impression; be impressed with; entertain feeling, harbor feeling, cherish feeling, respond; catch the flame, catch the infection; enter the spirit of., bear, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole, aby; abide (be composed); experience (meet with); taste, prove; labor under, smart under; bear the brunt of, brave, stand., swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake; be agitated, be excited [more]; look blue, look black; wince; draw a deep breath., impress (excite the feelings).
-adjectives
feeling; sentient; sensuous; sensorial, sensory; emotive, emotional; of feeling, with feeling, warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic., impressive, deep, profound, indelible; deep felt, home felt, heartfelt; swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic.
-adverbs
heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore, at heart, con amore, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears.
-phrases
the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the
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