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What is "sentimentality" in English? Definition and Explanations

Updated: 08-07-2026 by Wikilanguages.net
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What does sentimentality mean in English? Meaning of sentimentality definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "sentimentality" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "sentimentality": falsely emotional in a maudlin way

Noun

  • Meaning: falsely emotional in a maudlin way
  • Synonyms: drippiness mawkishness mushiness sentimentality sloppiness soupiness
  • Hyponyms: corn schmaltz schmalz sentimentalism shmaltz
  • Hypernyms: emotionalism emotionality

    • Meaning of "sentimentality": extravagant or affected feeling or emotion

    Noun

  • Meaning: extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
  • Synonyms: sentimentality
  • Hyponyms: bathos mawkishness
  • Hypernyms: sentiment

    • Synonyms:

    nostalgia, sentiment, mushiness, reminiscence, mawkishness, bathos, melodramatics, melodrama, triteness, emotionalness, gushiness, maudlinness, schmaltz, bathos, hokum,

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    sentimentality in English: sentimentality
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