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sentimentality
[sen-tuh-men-tal-i-tee] 
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sentimentality
[sen-tuh-men-tal-i-tee]
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| 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | mush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drivel |
| Synonyms: | amorousness, flattery, sentimentality |
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