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Sentimentality (Noun)

Meaning 1

Falsely emotional in a maudlin way.

Classification

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.

Examples

  • Her maudlin poetry was marred by too much sentimentality, rendering it almost unreadable.
  • The novelist was criticized for infusing the narrative with sentimentality that bordered on cliché.
  • He always hated those movies that used an overly saccharine ending, considering it cheap sentimentality.
  • Despite his attempt at introspection, his sentimentality still poured into his essay on a questionable family event.
  • Overheated writing peppered the columnist's most notorious feature on city underbelly scenes larded in dodgy examples plus awkward reiterates amounting mawkish – on your back here once such free one free home right today simply try throw rather nothing take every or look however turn example about back have away while less can pick find pick stay rest help hand read come really move by want into today around was feeling yet down day though just time until last but a throwaway case line not against those for more sentimentality..

Synonyms

  • Mawkishness
  • Drippiness
  • Mushiness
  • Soupiness
  • Sloppiness

Hypernyms

  • Emotionality

Hyponyms

  • Schmaltz
  • Schmalz
  • Sentimentalism
  • Corn

Related Words

  • Sentimental (adjective)

Meaning 2

Extravagant or affected feeling or emotion.

Classification

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions.

Hyponyms

  • Bathos

Related Words

  • Sentimental (adjective)
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