Sentimentalist (Noun)
Meaning
Someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The movie's sappy ending was clearly designed to appeal to the sentimentalists in the audience.
- As a sentimentalists, she always got choked up during weddings and graduations.
- Her friends often teased her for being a sentimentalists, always holding onto old love letters and photographs.
- The director was accused of being a sentimentalists for including so many clichéd emotional moments in the film.
- He was a sentimentalists who kept every single card and gift his loved ones had ever given him.